Upper Chichester township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Chichester township: | 4.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
63% of Upper Chichester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 13794
- Northeast: 569
- Midwest: 260
- South: 1306
- West: 56
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $114,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Upper Chichester township, Pennsylvania:
- 38 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 17 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,986
- One, attached: 854
- Two: 111
- 3 or 4: 206
- 5 to 9: 244
- 10 to 19: 764
- 20 to 49: 166
- 50 or more: 369
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,000
Housing units in Upper Chichester township with a mortgage: 3,203 (237 second mortgage, 578 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,070
- Construction (11%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Chichester township:
- Irish (19.1%)
- Italian (18.7%)
- German (12.6%)
- English (8.9%)
- Polish (6.6%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (20%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Sierra Leone (8%)
- Canada (7%)
- Germany (6%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Italy (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,294 (85%)
- Carpooled: 735 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 45 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 19 (0%)
- Railroad: 128 (1%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 148 (2%)
- Other means: 68 (1%)
- Worked at home: 122 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (44%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Electricity (16%)
People in group quarters in Upper Chichester township, Pennsylvania:
- 38 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 17 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in homes for the mentally ill
93.6% of residents of Upper Chichester township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
3.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (42% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,777- In family households: 14,402 (3,393 male householders, 1,066 female householders)
3,349 spouses, 5,138 children (4,642 natural, 162 adopted, 334 stepchildren), 472 grandchildren, 247 brothers or sisters, 140 parents, 306 other relatives, 291 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,375 (873 male householders (623 living alone)), 1,149 female householders (1,072 living alone)), 353 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 65 (24 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,673 2-persons, 1,116 3-persons, 997 4-persons, 429 5-persons, 227 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,695 1-person, 305 2-persons, 22 3-persons,
2,771 married couples with children.
778 single-parent households (178 men, 600 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 369
| Here: | 20.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 116
| Here: | 12.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 268
| Here: | 39.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |