Upper Bern township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (42% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Bern township: | 3.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
36% of Upper Bern township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2445
- Northeast: 74
- Midwest: 499
- South: 531
- West: 363
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $1,000,001
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 10.3%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,078
- One, attached: 76
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 94
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 24
- 20 to 49: 17
- Mobile homes: 152
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Upper Bern township with a mortgage: 717 (86 second mortgage, 42 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 135
- Construction (15%)
- Health care (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Bern township:
- German (23.5%)
- United States or American (20.2%)
- English (17.4%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
- Welsh (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (58%)
- Canada (25%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,517 (78%)
- Carpooled: 339 (17%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 65 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (6%)
96.8% of residents of Upper Bern township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,903- In family households: 3,479 (859 male householders, 253 female householders)
880 spouses, 1,262 children (1,094 natural, 7 adopted, 161 stepchildren), 37 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 33 other relatives, 122 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 424 (184 male householders (156 living alone)), 199 female householders (190 living alone)), 41 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 134 (112 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 445 2-persons, 288 3-persons, 201 4-persons, 117 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 28 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 346 1-person, 37 2-persons,
261 married couples with children.
54 single-parent households (24 men, 30 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 7.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |