South Whitehall township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (68% naturalized citizens)
| South Whitehall township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of South Whitehall township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 13693
- Northeast: 2184
- Midwest: 398
- South: 470
- West: 193
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $265,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in South Whitehall township, Pennsylvania:
- 958 people in nursing homes
- 39 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,438
- One, attached: 722
- Two: 41
- 3 or 4: 70
- 5 to 9: 204
- 10 to 19: 60
- 20 to 49: 52
- 50 or more: 534
- Mobile homes: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in South Whitehall township with a mortgage: 3,301 (211 second mortgage, 665 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,093
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Whitehall township:
- German (29.0%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- Italian (8.5%)
- English (6.5%)
- Pennsylvania German (6.0%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
- Polish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (11%)
- Germany (8%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- India (6%)
- Russia (5%)
- Greece (5%)
- Other Eastern Africa (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,123 (88%)
- Carpooled: 510 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 44 (1%)
- Walked: 60 (1%)
- Other means: 18 (0%)
- Worked at home: 332 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (45%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (44%)
- Utility gas (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in South Whitehall township, Pennsylvania:
- 958 people in nursing homes
- 39 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
90.3% of residents of South Whitehall township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
5.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,981- In family households: 14,824 (4,112 male householders, 904 female householders)
4,320 spouses, 4,810 children (4,423 natural, 177 adopted, 210 stepchildren), 178 grandchildren, 107 brothers or sisters, 119 parents, 133 other relatives, 141 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,157 (641 male householders (515 living alone)), 1,267 female householders (1,193 living alone)), 249 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,047 (993 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,393 2-persons, 1,096 3-persons, 1,043 4-persons, 382 5-persons, 70 6-persons, 32 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,708 1-person, 168 2-persons, 32 3-persons,
3,139 married couples with children.
509 single-parent households (126 men, 383 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 258
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 98
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 131
| Here: | 25.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |