Marion township, Berks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Marion township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Marion 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, 69% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1443
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 38
- South: 28
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
8 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 452
- One, attached: 39
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 30
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,500
Housing units in Marion township with a mortgage: 200 (21 second mortgage, 36 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 126
- Construction (21%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (13%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Social assistance (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Marion township:
- German (49.2%)
- United States or American (20.8%)
- Swiss (6.3%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.5%)
- English (3.0%)
- Irish (2.6%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (33%)
- Italy (33%)
- Dominican Republic (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 632 (79%)
- Carpooled: 62 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 78 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (63%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Wood (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
8 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
90.9% of residents of Marion township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
7.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 1% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,561- In family households: 1,425 (355 male householders, 59 female householders)
358 spouses, 586 children (561 natural, 14 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 27 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 136 (47 male householders (31 living alone)), 56 female householders (43 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 12 (7 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 165 2-persons, 83 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 41 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 74 1-person, 23 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
366 married couples with children.
56 single-parent households (20 men, 36 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 73
| Here: | 38.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 15.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 29.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |