Maidencreek township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Maidencreek township: | 4.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
55% of Maidencreek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5366
- Northeast: 408
- Midwest: 185
- South: 177
- West: 115
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,697
- One, attached: 493
- Two: 25
- 3 or 4: 27
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 18
- Mobile homes: 85
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,700
Housing units in Maidencreek township with a mortgage: 1,487 (93 second mortgage, 256 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 416
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (8%)
- Construction (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Maidencreek township:
- German (40.6%)
- Italian (12.0%)
- Irish (8.8%)
- Polish (7.6%)
- United States or American (6.0%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.9%)
- English (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (26%)
- Germany (18%)
- India (14%)
- Italy (11%)
- Ireland (8%)
- Canada (7%)
- Colombia (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,109 (89%)
- Carpooled: 262 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 24 (1%)
- Worked at home: 75 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
94.0% of residents of Maidencreek township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 11% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,549- In family households: 5,968 (1,614 male householders, 236 female householders)
1,629 spouses, 2,221 children (1,912 natural, 64 adopted, 245 stepchildren), 80 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 65 other relatives, 67 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 581 (253 male householders (166 living alone)), 171 female householders (121 living alone)), 157 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 683 2-persons, 461 3-persons, 469 4-persons, 170 5-persons, 48 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 287 1-person, 112 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 12 4-persons,
1,583 married couples with children.
199 single-parent households (67 men, 132 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
| Here: | 14.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |