Valley township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (7% naturalized citizens)
| Valley township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3948
- Northeast: 336
- Midwest: 135
- South: 353
- West: 120
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $109,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
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 Valley township, Pennsylvania:
- 106 people in nursing homes
- 18 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,335
- One, attached: 402
- Two: 42
- 3 or 4: 42
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 17
- Mobile homes: 128
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,000
Housing units in Valley township with a mortgage: 1,081 (67 second mortgage, 139 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 339
- Construction (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Valley township:
- Italian (15.5%)
- German (12.2%)
- Irish (11.9%)
- English (9.1%)
- United States or American (5.1%)
- Polish (4.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (46%)
- Nigeria (39%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Netherlands (5%)
- Colombia (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,095 (85%)
- Carpooled: 252 (10%)
- Railroad: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 14 (1%)
- Walked: 38 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 47 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (56%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
People in group quarters in Valley township, Pennsylvania:
- 106 people in nursing homes
- 18 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
92.5% of residents of Valley township speak English at home.
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 46% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
1.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,978- In family households: 4,355 (1,103 male householders, 255 female householders)
1,052 spouses, 1,469 children (1,309 natural, 24 adopted, 136 stepchildren), 162 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 57 parents, 101 other relatives, 123 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 623 (289 male householders (218 living alone)), 222 female householders (200 living alone)), 112 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 138 (135 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 522 2-persons, 351 3-persons, 308 4-persons, 122 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 418 1-person, 84 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
895 married couples with children.
286 single-parent households (82 men, 204 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 92
| Here: | 16.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 78
| Here: | 55.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |