Upper Darby township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 14 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Darby township: | 13.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
64% of Upper Darby township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% 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: 61105
- Northeast: 4213
- Midwest: 1164
- South: 2808
- West: 705
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
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 Darby township, Pennsylvania:
- 120 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 64 people in religious group quarters
- 31 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 24 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 23 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 18 people in nursing homes
- 12 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,046
- One, attached: 15,303
- Two: 2,590
- 3 or 4: 1,590
- 5 to 9: 673
- 10 to 19: 1,530
- 20 to 49: 2,174
- 50 or more: 2,356
- Mobile homes: 45
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,500
Housing units in Upper Darby township with a mortgage: 12,307 (1,090 second mortgage, 1,636 home equity loan, 55 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 7,052
- Construction (11%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Darby township:
- Irish (29.7%)
- Italian (18.1%)
- German (7.4%)
- English (4.7%)
- United States or American (2.9%)
- Polish (2.6%)
- Greek (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (12%)
- Vietnam (10%)
- Korea (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Greece (6%)
- Ireland (4%)
- Jamaica (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 27,687 (71%)
- Carpooled: 4,273 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2,177 (6%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 287 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 1,705 (4%)
- Railroad: 642 (2%)
- Ferryboat: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 44 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 16 (0%)
- Bicycle: 81 (0%)
- Walked: 1,406 (4%)
- Other means: 139 (0%)
- Worked at home: 784 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Upper Darby township, Pennsylvania:
- 120 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 64 people in religious group quarters
- 31 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 24 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 23 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 18 people in nursing homes
- 12 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
83.0% of residents of Upper Darby township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
7.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
6.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other language at home (66% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 81,528- In family households: 67,411 (14,428 male householders, 6,150 female householders)
15,029 spouses, 26,471 children (25,321 natural, 514 adopted, 636 stepchildren), 1,132 grandchildren, 953 brothers or sisters, 903 parents, 1,253 other relatives, 1,092 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 14,117 (5,430 male householders (4,377 living alone)), 6,586 female householders (5,924 living alone)), 2,101 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 293 (21 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,676 2-persons, 4,986 3-persons, 4,233 4-persons, 2,331 5-persons, 907 6-persons, 445 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10,301 1-person, 1,497 2-persons, 128 3-persons, 47 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
14,366 married couples with children.
4,707 single-parent households (943 men, 3,764 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,716
| Here: | 29.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1,252
| Here: | 28.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,706
| Here: | 40.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |