Washington township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (51% naturalized citizens)
Washington township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3099
- Northeast: 111
- Midwest: 24
- South: 54
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $109,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,048
- One, attached: 41
- Two: 35
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 20
- 50 or more: 4
- Mobile homes: 84
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 537 (23 second mortgage, 103 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 270
- Construction (15%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- German (43.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (9.6%)
- Irish (8.8%)
- United States or American (7.3%)
- Italian (6.4%)
- English (5.3%)
- Polish (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (46%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (31%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Korea (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,489 (85%)
- Carpooled: 178 (10%)
- Railroad: 10 (1%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 42 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 33 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Wood (5%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
95.0% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
4.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,360- In family households: 3,032 (832 male householders, 111 female householders)
828 spouses, 1,084 children (993 natural, 40 adopted, 51 stepchildren), 52 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 39 other relatives, 53 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 328 (147 male householders (119 living alone)), 120 female householders (93 living alone)), 61 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 370 2-persons, 220 3-persons, 245 4-persons, 70 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 28 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 212 1-person, 52 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
699 married couples with children.
97 single-parent households (31 men, 66 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 86
Here: | 21.8% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 30
Here: | 17.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 20.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |