Berwick township, Adams County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (47% naturalized citizens)
Berwick township: | 2.9% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Berwick township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1388
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 59
- South: 212
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Berwick township, Pennsylvania:
- 31 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 24 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 511
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 182
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,100
Housing units in Berwick township with a mortgage: 260 (25 second mortgage, 41 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 126
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Paper (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Paper (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Berwick township:
- German (51.6%)
- United States or American (14.9%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- English (5.2%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
- Polish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (47%)
- United Kingdom (19%)
- Italy (8%)
- Korea (6%)
- Guatemala (6%)
- Austria (4%)
- Germany (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 813 (86%)
- Carpooled: 92 (10%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 38 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (47%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Wood (6%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
People in group quarters in Berwick township, Pennsylvania:
- 31 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 24 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.9% of residents of Berwick township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (20% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 40% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,753- In family households: 1,559 (457 male householders, 68 female householders)
456 spouses, 498 children (458 natural, 23 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 19 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 194 (82 male householders (59 living alone)), 78 female householders (64 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 64 (58 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 242 2-persons, 138 3-persons, 93 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 123 1-person, 35 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
322 married couples with children.
67 single-parent households (28 men, 39 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 37
Here: | 20.7% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 18.2% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |