South Hanover township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (79% naturalized citizens)
South Hanover township: | 1.7% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of South Hanover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3930
- Northeast: 276
- Midwest: 186
- South: 243
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,481
- One, attached: 49
- Two: 62
- 3 or 4: 58
- 5 to 9: 63
- Mobile homes: 59
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,000
Housing units in South Hanover township with a mortgage: 929 (88 second mortgage, 151 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 355
- Public administration (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Hanover township:
- German (37.8%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- Italian (10.9%)
- English (8.7%)
- United States or American (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- Polish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guyana (19%)
- Germany (18%)
- Yugoslavia (16%)
- Canada (15%)
- Vietnam (11%)
- Korea (8%)
- Chile (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,087 (84%)
- Carpooled: 227 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 46 (2%)
- Worked at home: 118 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (48%)
- Electricity (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.9% of residents of South Hanover township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,793- In family households: 4,449 (1,201 male householders, 216 female householders)
1,203 spouses, 1,615 children (1,511 natural, 19 adopted, 85 stepchildren), 42 grandchildren, 32 brothers or sisters, 33 parents, 41 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 344 (133 male householders (105 living alone)), 160 female householders (138 living alone)), 51 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 551 2-persons, 330 3-persons, 339 4-persons, 147 5-persons, 39 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 243 1-person, 50 2-persons,
1,102 married couples with children.
166 single-parent households (58 men, 108 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 119
Here: | 17.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 29
Here: | 8.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
Here: | 16.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |