Lower Salford township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Lower Salford township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
61% of Lower Salford 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, 54% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9855
- Northeast: 1180
- Midwest: 384
- South: 545
- West: 148
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $142,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
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 Lower Salford township, Pennsylvania:
- 38 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 27 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,886
- One, attached: 757
- Two: 330
- 3 or 4: 64
- 5 to 9: 183
- 10 to 19: 158
- 20 to 49: 111
- 50 or more: 35
- Mobile homes: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,000
Housing units in Lower Salford township with a mortgage: 2,735 (196 second mortgage, 508 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 522
- Construction (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Chemicals (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Computer specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Salford township:
- German (28.1%)
- Irish (16.5%)
- Italian (13.2%)
- English (7.6%)
- Polish (5.2%)
- United States or American (4.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (11%)
- Italy (8%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Korea (7%)
- Portugal (6%)
- Germany (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,940 (87%)
- Carpooled: 466 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Railroad: 101 (1%)
- Taxi: 10 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 92 (1%)
- Other means: 32 (0%)
- Worked at home: 164 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (35%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
People in group quarters in Lower Salford township, Pennsylvania:
- 38 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 27 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 6 people in religious group quarters
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
93.8% of residents of Lower Salford township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 2% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,812- In family households: 11,759 (2,999 male householders, 564 female householders)
3,203 spouses, 4,595 children (4,214 natural, 129 adopted, 252 stepchildren), 98 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 82 parents, 134 other relatives, 76 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,053 (391 male householders (300 living alone)), 479 female householders (406 living alone)), 183 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 81 (39 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,217 2-persons, 819 3-persons, 941 4-persons, 417 5-persons, 135 6-persons, 34 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 706 1-person, 146 2-persons, 18 3-persons,
3,377 married couples with children.
443 single-parent households (84 men, 359 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 361
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 140
| Here: | 18.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 145
| Here: | 32.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |