Heidelberg township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Heidelberg township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Heidelberg township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3029
- Northeast: 175
- Midwest: 54
- South: 92
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 935
- One, attached: 125
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 33
- Mobile homes: 135
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Heidelberg township with a mortgage: 579 (93 second mortgage, 133 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 227
- Construction (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Engineers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Heidelberg township:
- German (48.8%)
- Pennsylvania German (13.7%)
- United States or American (7.3%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- Italian (5.0%)
- Polish (3.0%)
- English (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (73%)
- United Kingdom (27%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,659 (87%)
- Carpooled: 168 (9%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Other means: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 44 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Electricity (41%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
91.9% of residents of Heidelberg township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English well).
6.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,435- In family households: 3,032 (805 male householders, 175 female householders)
880 spouses, 1,048 children (967 natural, 41 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 41 other relatives, 45 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 403 (138 male householders (97 living alone)), 142 female householders (110 living alone)), 123 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 390 2-persons, 275 3-persons, 208 4-persons, 58 5-persons, 49 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 207 1-person, 46 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 19 4-persons,
696 married couples with children.
125 single-parent households (37 men, 88 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 11.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |