West Pottsgrove township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (26% naturalized citizens)
| West Pottsgrove township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of West Pottsgrove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3320
- Northeast: 103
- Midwest: 47
- South: 169
- West: 46
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $59,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
5 people in religious group quarters
2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 840
- One, attached: 477
- Two: 57
- 3 or 4: 78
- 5 to 9: 70
- 10 to 19: 49
- 20 to 49: 6
- 50 or more: 16
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $90,700
Housing units in West Pottsgrove township with a mortgage: 649 (37 second mortgage, 132 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 318
- Construction (14%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Pottsgrove township:
- German (25.9%)
- Italian (14.1%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- Polish (7.9%)
- United States or American (7.6%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.7%)
- Slovak (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Romania (25%)
- Germany (15%)
- Italy (14%)
- India (14%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (12%)
- Korea (8%)
- Philippines (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,669 (82%)
- Carpooled: 259 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 27 (1%)
- Walked: 67 (3%)
- Worked at home: 17 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Utility gas (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
5 people in religious group quarters
2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.8% of residents of West Pottsgrove township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
3.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (38% speak English very well, 62% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,808- In family households: 3,099 (776 male householders, 210 female householders)
847 spouses, 1,039 children (983 natural, 10 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 108 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 40 other relatives, 52 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 709 (245 male householders (165 living alone)), 293 female householders (247 living alone)), 171 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 379 2-persons, 239 3-persons, 254 4-persons, 71 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 412 1-person, 92 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 13 5-persons,
643 married couples with children.
198 single-parent households (47 men, 151 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 50
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 9.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 16.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |