Lower Providence township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Lower Providence township: | 6.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of Lower Providence township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15514
- Northeast: 2721
- Midwest: 648
- South: 1184
- West: 759
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $151,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Lower Providence township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,500 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 196 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 196 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,548
- One, attached: 513
- Two: 143
- 3 or 4: 163
- 5 to 9: 213
- 10 to 19: 433
- 20 to 49: 213
- 50 or more: 114
- Mobile homes: 376
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,700
Housing units in Lower Providence township with a mortgage: 3,940 (288 second mortgage, 768 home equity loan, 14 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,449
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Computer specialists (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Providence township:
- Italian (21.1%)
- Irish (20.0%)
- German (15.6%)
- English (8.2%)
- Polish (6.4%)
- United States or American (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (18%)
- India (15%)
- Korea (10%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Italy (6%)
- Germany (6%)
- Philippines (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,323 (86%)
- Carpooled: 717 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 46 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 3 (0%)
- Railroad: 96 (1%)
- Bicycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 112 (1%)
- Other means: 14 (0%)
- Worked at home: 481 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (45%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Lower Providence township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,500 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 196 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 196 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
92.1% of residents of Lower Providence township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
3.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
2.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (67% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 20,487- In family households: 18,080 (4,542 male householders, 1,068 female householders)
4,830 spouses, 6,935 children (6,440 natural, 242 adopted, 253 stepchildren), 161 grandchildren, 80 brothers or sisters, 136 parents, 139 other relatives, 189 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,407 (883 male householders (619 living alone)), 1,030 female householders (887 living alone)), 494 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,922 (1,876 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,063 2-persons, 1,266 3-persons, 1,414 4-persons, 658 5-persons, 154 6-persons, 55 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,506 1-person, 360 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 17 5-persons,
4,686 married couples with children.
682 single-parent households (174 men, 508 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 281
| Here: | 10.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 301
| Here: | 20.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 272
| Here: | 37.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |