Plymouth township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Plymouth township: | 7.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Plymouth township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 12541
- Northeast: 1141
- Midwest: 295
- South: 588
- West: 208
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $100,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Plymouth township, Pennsylvania:
- 126 people in nursing homes
- 67 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 10 people in religious group quarters
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,026
- One, attached: 676
- Two: 124
- 3 or 4: 199
- 5 to 9: 217
- 10 to 19: 205
- 20 to 49: 321
- 50 or more: 935
Housing units in Plymouth township with a mortgage: 2,647 (238 second mortgage, 367 home equity loan, 18 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,606
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Construction (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plymouth township:
- Italian (24.2%)
- Irish (18.0%)
- German (11.5%)
- Polish (8.0%)
- United States or American (4.9%)
- English (4.8%)
- Russian (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (22%)
- India (13%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (13%)
- Italy (9%)
- Poland (6%)
- Syria (4%)
- Philippines (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,984 (84%)
- Carpooled: 697 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 67 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 17 (0%)
- Railroad: 96 (1%)
- Bicycle: 17 (0%)
- Walked: 123 (1%)
- Other means: 74 (1%)
- Worked at home: 224 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Electricity (21%)
People in group quarters in Plymouth township, Pennsylvania:
- 126 people in nursing homes
- 67 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 10 people in religious group quarters
- 9 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
88.6% of residents of Plymouth township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
5.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
4.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (48% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 15,811- In family households: 13,244 (3,560 male householders, 860 female householders)
3,741 spouses, 4,256 children (4,070 natural, 76 adopted, 110 stepchildren), 206 grandchildren, 99 brothers or sisters, 152 parents, 199 other relatives, 171 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,567 (917 male householders (640 living alone)), 1,177 female householders (1,086 living alone)), 473 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 234 (200 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,997 2-persons, 1,053 3-persons, 846 4-persons, 402 5-persons, 98 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,726 1-person, 310 2-persons, 34 3-persons, 21 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
2,474 married couples with children.
468 single-parent households (107 men, 361 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 318
| Here: | 21.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 164
| Here: | 22.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 283
| Here: | 42.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |