Middletown township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (72% naturalized citizens)
| Middletown township: | 4.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of Middletown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% 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: 12461
- Northeast: 1166
- Midwest: 530
- South: 854
- West: 216
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $140,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
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
People in group quarters in Middletown township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,591 people in nursing homes
- 542 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 206 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 59 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 52 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 43 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 11 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 11 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 3 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in homes for the physically handicapped
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,578
- One, attached: 562
- Two: 40
- 3 or 4: 66
- 5 to 9: 56
- 10 to 19: 158
- 20 to 49: 153
- 50 or more: 1,017
- Mobile homes: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $204,200
Housing units in Middletown township with a mortgage: 2,594 (240 second mortgage, 398 home equity loan, 13 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,137
- Construction (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Middletown township:
- Irish (22.1%)
- German (16.9%)
- Italian (16.8%)
- English (12.4%)
- United States or American (4.8%)
- Polish (3.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (17%)
- Korea (13%)
- India (12%)
- Ireland (7%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Germany (6%)
- Philippines (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,252 (83%)
- Carpooled: 462 (7%)
- Subway or elevated: 20 (0%)
- Railroad: 223 (4%)
- Walked: 120 (2%)
- Other means: 18 (0%)
- Worked at home: 201 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (44%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Middletown township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,591 people in nursing homes
- 542 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 206 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 59 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 52 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 43 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 11 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 11 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 3 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in homes for the physically handicapped
91.9% of residents of Middletown township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
4.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,535- In family households: 11,562 (3,012 male householders, 755 female householders)
3,229 spouses, 3,992 children (3,792 natural, 95 adopted, 105 stepchildren), 154 grandchildren, 67 brothers or sisters, 120 parents, 172 other relatives, 61 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,973 (596 male householders (476 living alone)), 1,161 female householders (1,099 living alone)), 216 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,529 (2,180 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,698 2-persons, 797 3-persons, 779 4-persons, 344 5-persons, 94 6-persons, 55 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,575 1-person, 166 2-persons, 16 3-persons,
2,636 married couples with children.
300 single-parent households (62 men, 238 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 313
| Here: | 20.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 173
| Here: | 17.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 390
| Here: | 56.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |