Lykens township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (38% naturalized citizens)
Lykens township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
78% of Lykens township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1009
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 18
- South: 20
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 322
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 31
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,500
Housing units in Lykens township with a mortgage: 110 (15 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 71
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (11%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lykens township:
- German (78.9%)
- United States or American (6.3%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.8%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Irish (2.2%)
- English (1.2%)
- French (except Basque) (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other South Central Asia (46%)
- Canada (38%)
- Vietnam (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 313 (65%)
- Carpooled: 96 (20%)
- Taxi: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 16 (3%)
- Other means: 18 (4%)
- Worked at home: 38 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (49%)
- Coal or coke (24%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
79.4% of residents of Lykens township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
20.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 2% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,096- In family households: 1,023 (261 male householders, 22 female householders)
257 spouses, 444 children (423 natural, 12 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 11 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 73 (31 male householders (22 living alone)), 32 female householders (29 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 111 2-persons, 64 3-persons, 51 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 51 1-person, 12 2-persons,
286 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (16 men, 6 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 48
Here: | 34.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 5.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 12.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |