West Manchester township, York County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (61% naturalized citizens)
| West Manchester township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
61% of West Manchester 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: 13993
- Northeast: 913
- Midwest: 426
- South: 975
- West: 140
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in West Manchester township, Pennsylvania:
- 256 people in nursing homes
- 181 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 52 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 37 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,948
- One, attached: 901
- Two: 99
- 3 or 4: 261
- 5 to 9: 373
- 10 to 19: 107
- 20 to 49: 197
- 50 or more: 340
- Mobile homes: 193
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,300
Housing units in West Manchester township with a mortgage: 3,312 (370 second mortgage, 586 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,834
- Construction (9%)
- Printing and related support activities (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Manchester township:
- German (44.5%)
- United States or American (16.4%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- English (5.7%)
- Italian (4.6%)
- Polish (2.8%)
- Dutch (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Greece (20%)
- Mexico (19%)
- Vietnam (14%)
- Cambodia (7%)
- India (6%)
- Italy (5%)
- Canada (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,393 (87%)
- Carpooled: 736 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 24 (0%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 140 (2%)
- Other means: 30 (0%)
- Worked at home: 117 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in West Manchester township, Pennsylvania:
- 256 people in nursing homes
- 181 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 52 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 37 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.7% of residents of West Manchester township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,476- In family households: 13,654 (3,971 male householders, 751 female householders)
4,179 spouses, 4,137 children (3,833 natural, 85 adopted, 219 stepchildren), 125 grandchildren, 56 brothers or sisters, 138 parents, 58 other relatives, 239 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,822 (946 male householders (714 living alone)), 1,452 female householders (1,275 living alone)), 424 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 532 (241 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,420 2-persons, 1,014 3-persons, 887 4-persons, 314 5-persons, 78 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,989 1-person, 353 2-persons, 39 3-persons, 17 4-persons,
2,598 married couples with children.
600 single-parent households (197 men, 403 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 133
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 92
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 187
| Here: | 51.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |