Spring Garden township, York County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Spring Garden township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
55% of Spring Garden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8044
- Northeast: 1349
- Midwest: 594
- South: 1432
- West: 151
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $110,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Spring Garden township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,383 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 410 people in nursing homes
- 17 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,300
- One, attached: 753
- Two: 161
- 3 or 4: 90
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 25
- Mobile homes: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $41,700
Housing units in Spring Garden township with a mortgage: 2,158 (230 second mortgage, 339 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,354
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring Garden township:
- German (37.4%)
- United States or American (9.6%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Italian (8.6%)
- English (7.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Polish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Greece (12%)
- Canada (12%)
- Germany (10%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Korea (9%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Italy (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,532 (84%)
- Carpooled: 340 (6%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 22 (0%)
- Walked: 356 (7%)
- Other means: 14 (0%)
- Worked at home: 149 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Spring Garden township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,383 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 410 people in nursing homes
- 17 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
94.2% of residents of Spring Garden township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,158- In family households: 8,646 (2,373 male householders, 588 female householders)
2,541 spouses, 2,706 children (2,431 natural, 72 adopted, 203 stepchildren), 175 grandchildren, 36 brothers or sisters, 53 parents, 79 other relatives, 95 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,512 (512 male householders (402 living alone)), 720 female householders (627 living alone)), 280 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,820 (380 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,511 2-persons, 625 3-persons, 535 4-persons, 246 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,029 1-person, 152 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 22 4-persons,
1,792 married couples with children.
372 single-parent households (99 men, 273 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 156
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 57
| Here: | 9.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,476
| Here: | 86.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |