Tinicum township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (74% naturalized citizens)
| Tinicum township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
66% of Tinicum township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% 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: 3903
- Northeast: 143
- Midwest: 34
- South: 172
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 761
- One, attached: 679
- Two: 270
- 3 or 4: 127
- 5 to 9: 20
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 13
Housing units in Tinicum township with a mortgage: 642 (31 second mortgage, 71 home equity loan, 15 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 477
- Construction (14%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Air transportation (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Air transportation (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (3%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tinicum township:
- Irish (30.8%)
- Italian (15.6%)
- German (14.7%)
- United States or American (9.9%)
- Polish (6.1%)
- English (5.9%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (22%)
- Iran (18%)
- Greece (10%)
- India (9%)
- Turkey (9%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,716 (80%)
- Carpooled: 230 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 11 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 6 (0%)
- Railroad: 31 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 21 (1%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 99 (5%)
- Worked at home: 9 (0%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Electricity (7%)
3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.0% of residents of Tinicum township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,349- In family households: 3,631 (826 male householders, 319 female householders)
837 spouses, 1,259 children (1,166 natural, 6 adopted, 87 stepchildren), 122 grandchildren, 70 brothers or sisters, 26 parents, 50 other relatives, 122 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 718 (288 male householders (240 living alone)), 314 female householders (263 living alone)), 116 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 455 2-persons, 264 3-persons, 261 4-persons, 110 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 503 1-person, 88 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
659 married couples with children.
245 single-parent households (91 men, 154 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 3.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 48
| Here: | 34.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |