Worcester township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (62% naturalized citizens)
Worcester township: | 6.4% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
61% of Worcester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5731
- Northeast: 725
- Midwest: 310
- South: 332
- West: 104
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $168,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.6%
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
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,004
- One, attached: 665
- Two: 41
- 3 or 4: 60
- 5 to 9: 97
- 10 to 19: 42
- 20 to 49: 24
- 50 or more: 50
- Mobile homes: 24
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Worcester township with a mortgage: 1,644 (194 second mortgage, 277 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 586
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Construction (7%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Worcester township:
- Italian (19.7%)
- German (19.5%)
- Irish (17.1%)
- English (10.7%)
- Polish (4.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- United States or American (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (44%)
- Italy (15%)
- Canada (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- Hungary (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
- Germany (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,185 (85%)
- Carpooled: 241 (6%)
- Railroad: 114 (3%)
- Motorcycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 48 (1%)
- Worked at home: 156 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (47%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
92.0% of residents of Worcester township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English not well).
3.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
3.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,731- In family households: 6,903 (1,715 male householders, 431 female householders)
1,884 spouses, 2,476 children (2,349 natural, 68 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 113 grandchildren, 44 brothers or sisters, 91 parents, 102 other relatives, 47 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 828 (291 male householders (258 living alone)), 443 female householders (389 living alone)), 94 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 837 2-persons, 459 3-persons, 478 4-persons, 256 5-persons, 100 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 647 1-person, 87 2-persons,
1,875 married couples with children.
184 single-parent households (58 men, 126 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 277
Here: | 28.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 128
Here: | 27.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 124
Here: | 42.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |