Springettsbury township, York County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Springettsbury township: | 3.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
60% of Springettsbury township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 17640
- Northeast: 1474
- Midwest: 945
- South: 2066
- West: 660
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $120,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
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 Springettsbury township, Pennsylvania:
- 924 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 581 people in nursing homes
- 461 people in federal prisons and detention centers
- 122 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 29 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,637
- One, attached: 688
- Two: 113
- 3 or 4: 316
- 5 to 9: 392
- 10 to 19: 813
- 20 to 49: 139
- 50 or more: 319
- Mobile homes: 34
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Springettsbury township with a mortgage: 4,148 (419 second mortgage, 691 home equity loan, 32 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,390
- Construction (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Springettsbury township:
- German (40.5%)
- United States or American (9.3%)
- English (8.4%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- Italian (6.2%)
- Polish (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (18%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Korea (7%)
- Germany (6%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- Ukraine (5%)
- Italy (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,989 (90%)
- Carpooled: 587 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 38 (0%)
- Railroad: 26 (0%)
- Taxi: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 111 (1%)
- Other means: 31 (0%)
- Worked at home: 333 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (80%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Springettsbury township, Pennsylvania:
- 924 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 581 people in nursing homes
- 461 people in federal prisons and detention centers
- 122 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 29 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in religious group quarters
93.5% of residents of Springettsbury township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (34% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 28% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (32% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 21,736- In family households: 18,381 (5,413 male householders, 1,013 female householders)
5,492 spouses, 5,696 children (5,336 natural, 151 adopted, 209 stepchildren), 153 grandchildren, 79 brothers or sisters, 150 parents, 192 other relatives, 193 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,355 (1,079 male householders (825 living alone)), 1,720 female householders (1,535 living alone)), 556 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,143 (1,960 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,283 2-persons, 1,379 3-persons, 1,143 4-persons, 457 5-persons, 125 6-persons, 39 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,360 1-person, 379 2-persons, 46 3-persons, 14 4-persons,
3,611 married couples with children.
798 single-parent households (167 men, 631 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 419
| Here: | 17.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 269
| Here: | 19.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 244
| Here: | 35.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |