Upper Allen township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (68% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Allen township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
54% of Upper Allen township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10466
- Northeast: 1572
- Midwest: 970
- South: 1409
- West: 358
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $109,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
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 Upper Allen township, Pennsylvania:
- 2,167 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 701 people in nursing homes
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,338
- One, attached: 954
- Two: 78
- 3 or 4: 159
- 5 to 9: 148
- 10 to 19: 294
- 20 to 49: 50
- 50 or more: 39
- Mobile homes: 138
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,700
Housing units in Upper Allen township with a mortgage: 2,623 (246 second mortgage, 416 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,041
- Educational services (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Computer specialists (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Allen township:
- German (36.4%)
- English (10.1%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- Italian (7.7%)
- United States or American (5.9%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- European (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (24%)
- Yugoslavia (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (8%)
- Japan (7%)
- India (7%)
- Romania (7%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,053 (76%)
- Carpooled: 603 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 938 (12%)
- Other means: 29 (0%)
- Worked at home: 320 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (58%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (28%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Upper Allen township, Pennsylvania:
- 2,167 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 701 people in nursing homes
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in religious group quarters
94.7% of residents of Upper Allen township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,405- In family households: 10,757 (2,981 male householders, 614 female householders)
3,102 spouses, 3,711 children (3,545 natural, 61 adopted, 105 stepchildren), 101 grandchildren, 55 brothers or sisters, 70 parents, 11 other relatives, 112 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,648 (457 male householders (370 living alone)), 958 female householders (842 living alone)), 233 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,875 (687 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,696 2-persons, 755 3-persons, 718 4-persons, 316 5-persons, 74 6-persons, 36 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,212 1-person, 168 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
2,420 married couples with children.
494 single-parent households (78 men, 416 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 202
| Here: | 13.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 189
| Here: | 23.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2,162
| Here: | 84.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |