Swatara township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Swatara township: | 5.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
61% of Swatara township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 17698
- Northeast: 1382
- Midwest: 447
- South: 1303
- West: 310
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Swatara township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,218 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 391 people in nursing homes
- 93 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 66 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 58 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 36 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 26 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 25 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 22 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,384
- One, attached: 1,449
- Two: 182
- 3 or 4: 274
- 5 to 9: 500
- 10 to 19: 844
- 20 to 49: 134
- 50 or more: 278
- Mobile homes: 20
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 17
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Swatara township with a mortgage: 3,891 (465 second mortgage, 485 home equity loan, 23 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,934
- Public administration (13%)
- Construction (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Public administration (13%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Swatara township:
- German (27.7%)
- Italian (10.0%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- United States or American (5.8%)
- English (3.0%)
- Croatian (2.7%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (15%)
- Mexico (11%)
- Italy (7%)
- Other Eastern Africa (7%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
- Yugoslavia (5%)
- Korea (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,597 (84%)
- Carpooled: 1,241 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 115 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Taxi: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 82 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (0%)
- Worked at home: 189 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Swatara township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,218 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 391 people in nursing homes
- 93 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 66 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 58 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 36 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 26 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 25 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 22 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in other group homes
90.2% of residents of Swatara township speak English at home.
4.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (68% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (75% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 20,714- In family households: 17,377 (4,280 male householders, 1,500 female householders)
4,235 spouses, 6,373 children (6,073 natural, 131 adopted, 169 stepchildren), 213 grandchildren, 93 brothers or sisters, 138 parents, 228 other relatives, 317 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,337 (1,095 male householders (919 living alone)), 1,805 female householders (1,605 living alone)), 437 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,941 (1,806 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,680 2-persons, 1,377 3-persons, 1,078 4-persons, 447 5-persons, 179 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,524 1-person, 335 2-persons, 36 3-persons, 5 5-persons,
3,062 married couples with children.
1,532 single-parent households (235 men, 1,297 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 371
| Here: | 13.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 219
| Here: | 18.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 112
| Here: | 17.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |