Hellam township, York County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Hellam township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
62% of Hellam township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4584
- Northeast: 443
- Midwest: 246
- South: 413
- West: 62
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
32 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,844
- One, attached: 60
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 57
- 5 to 9: 207
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 10
- Mobile homes: 320
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,600
Housing units in Hellam township with a mortgage: 1,003 (86 second mortgage, 155 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 492
- Construction (13%)
- Printing and related support activities (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hellam township:
- German (53.8%)
- United States or American (8.3%)
- Irish (7.6%)
- English (6.9%)
- Italian (5.1%)
- Polish (2.0%)
- Scottish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (30%)
- Korea (19%)
- France (12%)
- Canada (10%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- Germany (9%)
- Peru (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,845 (90%)
- Carpooled: 192 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (0%)
- Worked at home: 95 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (32%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (4%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
32 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.5% of residents of Hellam township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,892- In family households: 4,999 (1,386 male householders, 326 female householders)
1,500 spouses, 1,524 children (1,379 natural, 16 adopted, 129 stepchildren), 59 grandchildren, 36 brothers or sisters, 80 parents, 37 other relatives, 51 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 893 (368 male householders (290 living alone)), 333 female householders (251 living alone)), 192 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 38 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 797 2-persons, 428 3-persons, 341 4-persons, 96 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 541 1-person, 145 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 11 4-persons,
1,038 married couples with children.
214 single-parent households (77 men, 137 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 115
| Here: | 17.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 23
| Here: | 7.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 55
| Here: | 35.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |