Thornbury township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (39% naturalized citizens)
Thornbury township: | 6.5% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
43% of Thornbury township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 28% 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: 1504
- Northeast: 424
- Midwest: 193
- South: 360
- West: 58
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $306,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
18 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 685
- One, attached: 158
- 5 to 9: 26
- 10 to 19: 128
- 20 to 49: 59
- 50 or more: 49
- Mobile homes: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Thornbury township with a mortgage: 502 (73 second mortgage, 67 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 148
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (20%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Health care (11%)
- Construction (6%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Utilities (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (5%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Top executives (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Physicians and surgeons (7%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Physicians and surgeons (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thornbury township:
- German (21.2%)
- Italian (17.7%)
- Irish (14.8%)
- English (10.4%)
- Polish (4.3%)
- Swiss (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (23%)
- United Kingdom (18%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (14%)
- India (13%)
- Bangladesh (10%)
- Italy (7%)
- Russia (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,255 (85%)
- Carpooled: 66 (4%)
- Railroad: 46 (3%)
- Worked at home: 110 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (27%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
18 people in homes for the mentally retarded
91.4% of residents of Thornbury township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
5.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (44% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 15% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,710- In family households: 2,325 (604 male householders, 135 female householders)
669 spouses, 749 children (706 natural, 17 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 42 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 53 parents, 41 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 385 (140 male householders (109 living alone)), 187 female householders (167 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 21 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 306 2-persons, 177 3-persons, 137 4-persons, 96 5-persons, 23 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 276 1-person, 44 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
618 married couples with children.
50 single-parent households (11 men, 39 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 44
Here: | 16.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
Here: | 8.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
Here: | 29.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |