Manheim township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Manheim township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
58% of Manheim township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 23317
- Northeast: 3889
- Midwest: 1812
- South: 2002
- West: 643
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $111,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Manheim township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,086 people in nursing homes
- 284 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 237 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 41 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 35 people in other group homes
- 12 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 7 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 7 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,641
- One, attached: 2,118
- Two: 197
- 3 or 4: 463
- 5 to 9: 1,053
- 10 to 19: 411
- 20 to 49: 184
- 50 or more: 370
- Mobile homes: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Manheim township with a mortgage: 6,178 (376 second mortgage, 1,177 home equity loan, 22 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,830
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Manheim township:
- German (34.7%)
- English (8.4%)
- United States or American (8.0%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Italian (7.0%)
- Polish (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (18%)
- Canada (8%)
- Greece (7%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- India (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Korea (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,839 (86%)
- Carpooled: 934 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 58 (0%)
- Railroad: 45 (0%)
- Taxi: 17 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (0%)
- Bicycle: 25 (0%)
- Walked: 408 (3%)
- Other means: 49 (0%)
- Worked at home: 740 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (43%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Manheim township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,086 people in nursing homes
- 284 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 237 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 41 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 35 people in other group homes
- 12 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 7 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 7 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
90.9% of residents of Manheim township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
4.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (81% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 32,040- In family households: 27,758 (7,956 male householders, 1,378 female householders)
8,337 spouses, 9,157 children (8,343 natural, 367 adopted, 447 stepchildren), 268 grandchildren, 94 brothers or sisters, 87 parents, 189 other relatives, 292 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,282 (1,252 male householders (963 living alone)), 2,419 female householders (2,231 living alone)), 611 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,730 (1,080 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,496 2-persons, 1,876 3-persons, 1,867 4-persons, 780 5-persons, 203 6-persons, 112 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,194 1-person, 376 2-persons, 70 3-persons, 31 4-persons,
6,487 married couples with children.
1,020 single-parent households (238 men, 782 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 487
| Here: | 12.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 294
| Here: | 16.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 512
| Here: | 50.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |