North Coventry township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (57% naturalized citizens)
| North Coventry township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of North Coventry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6094
- Northeast: 522
- Midwest: 258
- South: 186
- West: 126
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $120,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,152
- One, attached: 238
- Two: 34
- 3 or 4: 88
- 5 to 9: 103
- 10 to 19: 276
- 20 to 49: 190
- 50 or more: 20
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,500
Housing units in North Coventry township with a mortgage: 1,395 (76 second mortgage, 288 home equity loan, 13 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 659
- Construction (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in North Coventry township:
- German (31.0%)
- Italian (13.2%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- English (9.7%)
- Polish (6.5%)
- United States or American (5.2%)
- Pennsylvania German (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (17%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (14%)
- Germany (11%)
- Vietnam (11%)
- Egypt (8%)
- Yugoslavia (7%)
- Japan (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,243 (84%)
- Carpooled: 357 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 16 (0%)
- Railroad: 21 (1%)
- Bicycle: 37 (1%)
- Walked: 46 (1%)
- Other means: 30 (1%)
- Worked at home: 108 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (63%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Utility gas (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
95.3% of residents of North Coventry township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (28% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,381- In family households: 6,312 (1,714 male householders, 389 female householders)
1,728 spouses, 2,136 children (2,038 natural, 14 adopted, 84 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 30 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 128 other relatives, 96 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,069 (416 male householders (308 living alone)), 485 female householders (435 living alone)), 168 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 972 2-persons, 507 3-persons, 419 4-persons, 155 5-persons, 47 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 743 1-person, 144 2-persons, 14 3-persons,
1,290 married couples with children.
247 single-parent households (66 men, 181 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 109
| Here: | 15.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 60
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 60
| Here: | 23.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |