Williams township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Williams township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Williams township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1053
- Northeast: 19
- Midwest: 15
- South: 41
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 408
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 15
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Williams township with a mortgage: 174 (24 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 155
- Public administration (10%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Computer and electronic products (10%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Computer and electronic products (9%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Williams township:
- German (45.2%)
- United States or American (10.1%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Polish (4.6%)
- Dutch (4.5%)
- English (4.0%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- France (33%)
- Germany (22%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (22%)
- Hungary (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 408 (73%)
- Carpooled: 132 (24%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Coal or coke (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
99.0% of residents of Williams township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,143- In family households: 1,020 (291 male householders, 66 female householders)
278 spouses, 329 children (302 natural, 6 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 7 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 123 (55 male householders (46 living alone)), 56 female householders (54 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 159 2-persons, 99 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 100 1-person, 9 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
185 married couples with children.
61 single-parent households (20 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 12.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |