Whitehall township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (51% naturalized citizens)
| Whitehall township: | 7.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
60% of Whitehall township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 18883
- Northeast: 2236
- Midwest: 365
- South: 972
- West: 195
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $107,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Whitehall township, Pennsylvania:
- 234 people in nursing homes
- 50 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,280
- One, attached: 1,998
- Two: 224
- 3 or 4: 307
- 5 to 9: 750
- 10 to 19: 1,002
- 20 to 49: 439
- 50 or more: 633
- Mobile homes: 111
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,600
Housing units in Whitehall township with a mortgage: 3,916 (346 second mortgage, 674 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,389
- Construction (8%)
- Health care (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Whitehall township:
- German (26.7%)
- Italian (10.4%)
- Irish (6.2%)
- United States or American (5.6%)
- Pennsylvania German (5.4%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Slovak (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (17%)
- Syria (13%)
- Lebanon (9%)
- Vietnam (7%)
- Germany (6%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Ecuador (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 10,849 (87%)
- Carpooled: 1,068 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 75 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 9 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 12 (0%)
- Taxi: 5 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 175 (1%)
- Other means: 48 (0%)
- Worked at home: 277 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Whitehall township, Pennsylvania:
- 234 people in nursing homes
- 50 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 6 people in religious group quarters
86.5% of residents of Whitehall township speak English at home.
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
4.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (48% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
3.0% of residents speak other language at home (55% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 24,599- In family households: 20,369 (5,590 male householders, 1,231 female householders)
5,791 spouses, 6,604 children (6,143 natural, 123 adopted, 338 stepchildren), 208 grandchildren, 182 brothers or sisters, 152 parents, 246 other relatives, 365 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,230 (1,625 male householders (1,283 living alone)), 1,935 female householders (1,686 living alone)), 670 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 297 (245 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,172 2-persons, 1,584 3-persons, 1,326 4-persons, 505 5-persons, 202 6-persons, 32 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,969 1-person, 523 2-persons, 60 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
3,943 married couples with children.
995 single-parent households (263 men, 732 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 369
| Here: | 14.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 79
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 220
| Here: | 25.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |