Hampden township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (48% naturalized citizens)
| Hampden township: | 4.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
58% of Hampden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 16531
- Northeast: 2230
- Midwest: 1454
- South: 2083
- West: 528
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $122,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
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 Hampden township, Pennsylvania:
- 348 people in nursing homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,605
- One, attached: 1,056
- Two: 61
- 3 or 4: 267
- 5 to 9: 320
- 10 to 19: 634
- 20 to 49: 129
- 50 or more: 188
- Mobile homes: 730
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,400
Housing units in Hampden township with a mortgage: 5,106 (498 second mortgage, 832 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,648
- Public administration (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Construction (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Computer specialists (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hampden township:
- German (30.9%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- English (9.2%)
- Italian (8.0%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- Polish (3.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (18%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (14%)
- Korea (13%)
- Greece (7%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Other Western Asia (5%)
- Laos (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 11,085 (88%)
- Carpooled: 857 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 29 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 20 (0%)
- Walked: 182 (1%)
- Other means: 39 (0%)
- Worked at home: 373 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (40%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Hampden township, Pennsylvania:
- 348 people in nursing homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
93.7% of residents of Hampden township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (38% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 23,834- In family households: 20,691 (5,859 male householders, 1,070 female householders)
6,102 spouses, 7,071 children (6,595 natural, 254 adopted, 222 stepchildren), 121 grandchildren, 105 brothers or sisters, 122 parents, 140 other relatives, 101 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,143 (1,217 male householders (960 living alone)), 1,456 female householders (1,280 living alone)), 470 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 359 (343 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,223 2-persons, 1,497 3-persons, 1,517 4-persons, 516 5-persons, 153 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,240 1-person, 406 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
4,889 married couples with children.
813 single-parent households (174 men, 639 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 436
| Here: | 15.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 272
| Here: | 17.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 132
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |