Delaware township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (46% naturalized citizens)
| Delaware township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Delaware township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3844
- Northeast: 203
- Midwest: 138
- South: 95
- West: 42
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,132
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 44
- 3 or 4: 23
- 5 to 9: 26
- 20 to 49: 15
- 50 or more: 66
- Mobile homes: 433
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,800
Housing units in Delaware township with a mortgage: 540 (17 second mortgage, 106 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 236
- Food (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Delaware township:
- German (47.7%)
- United States or American (15.4%)
- English (8.6%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.3%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
- Italian (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (54%)
- Netherlands (46%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,733 (85%)
- Carpooled: 129 (6%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (2%)
- Other means: 28 (1%)
- Worked at home: 98 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (37%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Utility gas (21%)
- Wood (7%)
- Coal or coke (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.0% of residents of Delaware township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,315- In family households: 3,838 (1,063 male householders, 196 female householders)
1,071 spouses, 1,341 children (1,252 natural, 34 adopted, 55 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 23 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 20 other relatives, 79 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 477 (217 male householders (181 living alone)), 197 female householders (166 living alone)), 63 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 20 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 535 2-persons, 324 3-persons, 259 4-persons, 127 5-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 347 1-person, 67 2-persons,
820 married couples with children.
153 single-parent households (53 men, 100 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 74
| Here: | 16.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 11.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 12.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |