Upper Paxton township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Paxton township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
72% of Upper Paxton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3609
- Northeast: 68
- Midwest: 26
- South: 135
- West: 50
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
200 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,177
- One, attached: 82
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 27
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 23
- Mobile homes: 181
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,400
Housing units in Upper Paxton township with a mortgage: 525 (47 second mortgage, 84 home equity loan, 14 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 424
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Other financial specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Paxton township:
- German (57.8%)
- United States or American (14.7%)
- Irish (4.4%)
- English (2.5%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.4%)
- Swiss (2.4%)
- Polish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Peru (34%)
- Korea (29%)
- El Salvador (20%)
- Honduras (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,404 (77%)
- Carpooled: 275 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 16 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 49 (3%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 59 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (57%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Coal or coke (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
200 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
94.9% of residents of Upper Paxton township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
4.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,723- In family households: 3,302 (968 male householders, 126 female householders)
994 spouses, 1,078 children (980 natural, 51 adopted, 47 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 41 parents, 4 other relatives, 41 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 421 (172 male householders (149 living alone)), 186 female householders (154 living alone)), 63 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 207 (199 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 502 2-persons, 243 3-persons, 229 4-persons, 91 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 303 1-person, 48 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
742 married couples with children.
127 single-parent households (30 men, 97 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 36
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 20
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 32
| Here: | 47.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |