Upper Leacock township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (34% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Leacock township: | 5.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Upper Leacock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6529
- Northeast: 570
- Midwest: 198
- South: 372
- West: 39
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
19 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,903
- One, attached: 367
- Two: 95
- 3 or 4: 122
- 5 to 9: 200
- 10 to 19: 69
- 20 to 49: 7
- 50 or more: 12
- Mobile homes: 79
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,500
Housing units in Upper Leacock township with a mortgage: 921 (100 second mortgage, 155 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 557
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Construction (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Leacock township:
- German (39.8%)
- United States or American (9.9%)
- Swiss (5.6%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- Italian (5.5%)
- English (3.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (16%)
- Colombia (10%)
- Laos (10%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Mexico (6%)
- Cambodia (6%)
- Canada (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,637 (68%)
- Carpooled: 448 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 44 (1%)
- Taxi: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 27 (1%)
- Walked: 376 (10%)
- Other means: 27 (1%)
- Worked at home: 309 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Coal or coke (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (2%)
19 people in homes for the mentally retarded
70.7% of residents of Upper Leacock township speak English at home.
3.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
22.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
3.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (40% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 31% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,210- In family households: 7,429 (1,788 male householders, 336 female householders)
1,777 spouses, 3,200 children (3,051 natural, 71 adopted, 78 stepchildren), 49 grandchildren, 32 brothers or sisters, 45 parents, 76 other relatives, 126 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 781 (284 male householders (216 living alone)), 372 female householders (329 living alone)), 125 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 19 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 837 2-persons, 448 3-persons, 398 4-persons, 199 5-persons, 135 6-persons, 107 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 545 1-person, 102 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
2,222 married couples with children.
253 single-parent households (63 men, 190 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 437
| Here: | 37.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 114
| Here: | 23.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
| Here: | 12.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |