East Lampeter township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (50% naturalized citizens)
| East Lampeter township: | 5.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
60% of East Lampeter 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, 37% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10421
- Northeast: 1024
- Midwest: 393
- South: 613
- West: 241
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $88,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,969
- One, attached: 761
- Two: 203
- 3 or 4: 351
- 5 to 9: 668
- 10 to 19: 350
- 20 to 49: 32
- 50 or more: 59
- Mobile homes: 226
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,600
Housing units in East Lampeter township with a mortgage: 1,795 (118 second mortgage, 367 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,048
- Construction (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Printing and related support activities (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in East Lampeter township:
- German (36.8%)
- United States or American (9.8%)
- English (6.9%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- Italian (5.4%)
- Swiss (4.6%)
- Pennsylvania German (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (14%)
- Vietnam (11%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (9%)
- Canada (6%)
- Germany (6%)
- Cuba (4%)
- El Salvador (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,404 (79%)
- Carpooled: 664 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 37 (1%)
- Railroad: 11 (0%)
- Taxi: 19 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 239 (4%)
- Other means: 99 (1%)
- Worked at home: 341 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (31%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Wood (1%)
9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
84.3% of residents of East Lampeter township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
10.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (39% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,554- In family households: 11,576 (3,146 male householders, 589 female householders)
3,231 spouses, 4,204 children (3,951 natural, 105 adopted, 148 stepchildren), 135 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 65 parents, 73 other relatives, 122 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,978 (729 male householders (507 living alone)), 880 female householders (778 living alone)), 369 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 16 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,825 2-persons, 780 3-persons, 614 4-persons, 291 5-persons, 127 6-persons, 98 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,285 1-person, 278 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 7 5-persons,
2,820 married couples with children.
462 single-parent households (115 men, 347 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 379
| Here: | 24.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 125
| Here: | 17.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 61
| Here: | 29.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |