Oley township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Oley township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
66% of Oley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3078
- Northeast: 239
- Midwest: 66
- South: 112
- West: 24
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
8 people in other workers' dormitories
3 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,111
- One, attached: 128
- Two: 109
- 3 or 4: 22
- 5 to 9: 30
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $71,000
Housing units in Oley township with a mortgage: 512 (31 second mortgage, 90 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 382
- Construction (16%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (10%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Legal support workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oley township:
- German (41.4%)
- United States or American (10.6%)
- Pennsylvania German (10.5%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- Italian (7.3%)
- Polish (3.4%)
- English (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (38%)
- Poland (24%)
- Mexico (16%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Germany (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,526 (85%)
- Carpooled: 134 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 12 (1%)
- Walked: 51 (3%)
- Worked at home: 81 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Wood (2%)
8 people in other workers' dormitories
3 people in nursing homes
94.0% of residents of Oley township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
4.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,572- In family households: 3,122 (905 male householders, 116 female householders)
935 spouses, 1,033 children (948 natural, 18 adopted, 67 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 36 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 450 (169 male householders (110 living alone)), 181 female householders (163 living alone)), 100 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 402 2-persons, 279 3-persons, 228 4-persons, 64 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 273 1-person, 69 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
670 married couples with children.
121 single-parent households (35 men, 86 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 62
| Here: | 14.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 37
| Here: | 19.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 29
| Here: | 30.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |