Lower Merion township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Lower Merion township: | 8.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
63% of Lower Merion township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 33% 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: 35400
- Northeast: 9458
- Midwest: 3524
- South: 4000
- West: 1945
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $296,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
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
People in group quarters in Lower Merion township, Pennsylvania:
- 3,353 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 456 people in nursing homes
- 315 people in other group homes
- 218 people in religious group quarters
- 89 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 68 people in other workers' dormitories
- 15 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 13 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 9 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 13,691
- One, attached: 2,829
- Two: 481
- 3 or 4: 697
- 5 to 9: 540
- 10 to 19: 677
- 20 to 49: 1,286
- 50 or more: 3,467
- Mobile homes: 31
Median worth of mobile homes: $391,700
Housing units in Lower Merion township with a mortgage: 9,464 (929 second mortgage, 1,507 home equity loan, 78 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,699
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (20%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Construction (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (18%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Physicians and surgeons (10%)
- Lawyers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Postsecondary teachers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Physicians and surgeons (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Postsecondary teachers (4%)
- Lawyers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Merion township:
- Irish (13.0%)
- Russian (11.5%)
- Italian (10.3%)
- German (8.0%)
- English (7.3%)
- United States or American (7.0%)
- Polish (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Korea (5%)
- Israel (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Italy (4%)
- Canada (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 19,810 (71%)
- Carpooled: 1,948 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 290 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 13 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 183 (1%)
- Railroad: 2,194 (8%)
- Taxi: 29 (0%)
- Bicycle: 100 (0%)
- Walked: 1,642 (6%)
- Other means: 137 (0%)
- Worked at home: 1,724 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Lower Merion township, Pennsylvania:
- 3,353 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 456 people in nursing homes
- 315 people in other group homes
- 218 people in religious group quarters
- 89 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 68 people in other workers' dormitories
- 15 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 13 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 9 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in unknown juvenile institutions
89.4% of residents of Lower Merion township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
5.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other language at home (86% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 55,304- In family households: 45,847 (11,746 male householders, 3,368 female householders)
13,281 spouses, 15,447 children (14,498 natural, 627 adopted, 322 stepchildren), 416 grandchildren, 292 brothers or sisters, 298 parents, 562 other relatives, 437 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 9,457 (2,724 male householders (2,054 living alone)), 5,007 female householders (4,420 living alone)), 1,726 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4,546 (530 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 6,935 2-persons, 3,196 3-persons, 3,126 4-persons, 1,313 5-persons, 437 6-persons, 107 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 6,474 1-person, 952 2-persons, 241 3-persons, 36 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
11,082 married couples with children.
1,485 single-parent households (243 men, 1,242 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,252
| Here: | 35.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1,287
| Here: | 42.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4,484
| Here: | 87.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |