Pennsylvania: State Summary
SNAPS data is derived from the 2000 U.S. Census and several 2003 CDC databases. For more information, see the Credits page.
State Health Department
- Pennsylvania Department of Health: P.O. Box 90, Harrisburg
Population:
- Total Population: 12,281,054
- Males: 5,927,076
- Females: 6,353,978
Top 26 Languages spoken at home: (> 5000)
- English only (10,583,070)
- Spanish (356,745)
- Italian (70,434)
- German (68,670)
- French (46,895)
- Pennsylvania Dutch (39,500)
- Chinese (35,390)
- Russian (32,008)
- Polish (31,660)
- Korean (25,930)
- Vietnamese (25,550)
- Arabic (19,465)
- Greek (17,203)
- Ukrainian (11,980)
- Dutch (10,805)
- Hindi (9,705)
- Tagalog (9,454)
- Slovak (8,773)
- Gujarathi (8,610)
- Mon-Khmer, Cambodian (8,425)
- Portuguese (8,190)
- Japanese (7,129)
- Hungarian (6,029)
- Hebrew (5,670)
- Malayalam (5,475)
- Yiddish (5,195)
Top 5 Religions by Adherents:
- Catholic Church (3,802,524)
- United Methodist Church, The (659,350)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (611,913)
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (324,714)
- Jewish Estimate (283,000)
Disabilities:
- Total Reported: 3,781,810
- Sensory: 349,709
- Physical: 954,934
- Mental: 540,961
- Self-care: 304,790
- Go outside home: 749,374
- Employment: 816,308
Grandparents as caregivers
Grandparents as caregivers: 80,423
Heating fuel:
- Total Reported: 4,777,003
- Utility gas: 2,452,941
- Bottled or LP gas: 145,254
- Electricity: 786,648
- Fuel oil, kerosene: 1,217,155
- Coal or Coke: 67,986
- Wood: 76,060
- Solar Energy: 663
- Other fuel: 20,500
- No fuel used: 9,796
Vehicles available:
- Total Reported: 9,017,930
- No vehicle: 1,042,181
- 1 or more vehicle: 7,975,749
Education Attainment:
- No School: 61,328
- No High School: 390,741
- Some High School: 1,044,036
- High School: 3,150,013
- Some College: 1,284,731
- Associate's Degree: 487,804
- College Degree: 1,153,383
- Master's Degree: 450,491
- Professional Degree: 164,485
- Doctoral Degree: 79,272
Household Phones:
- Households Reporting: 4,777,003
- Owners with phone: 3,382,468
- Owners without phone: 23,699
- Renters with phone: 1,328,855
- Renters without phone: 41,981
- Page last updated on Mar 12, 2007
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