Perry township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Perry township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2251
- Northeast: 77
- Midwest: 32
- South: 54
- West: 18
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 803
- One, attached: 38
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 15
- Mobile homes: 116
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 327 (12 second mortgage, 81 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 279
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- German (50.7%)
- United States or American (12.4%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- Italian (5.6%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.8%)
- English (2.9%)
- Lithuanian (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (50%)
- France (31%)
- Philippines (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,221 (88%)
- Carpooled: 62 (4%)
- Walked: 19 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 77 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (73%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
95.3% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,463- In family households: 2,160 (614 male householders, 112 female householders)
625 spouses, 703 children (607 natural, 32 adopted, 64 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 35 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 303 (109 male householders (69 living alone)), 120 female householders (102 living alone)), 74 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 361 2-persons, 149 3-persons, 138 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 171 1-person, 47 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
430 married couples with children.
70 single-parent households (30 men, 40 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |