Allen township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (85% naturalized citizens)
| Allen township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
74% of Allen township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2332
- Northeast: 144
- Midwest: 33
- South: 24
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 816
- One, attached: 51
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 147
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,000
Housing units in Allen township with a mortgage: 441 (30 second mortgage, 94 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 286
- Construction (11%)
- Health care (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (29%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Allen township:
- German (30.6%)
- Italian (9.5%)
- Pennsylvania German (9.1%)
- Polish (6.0%)
- United States or American (5.4%)
- Austrian (4.9%)
- Irish (4.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (48%)
- Syria (15%)
- Germany (14%)
- Other Caribbean (14%)
- Greece (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,209 (88%)
- Carpooled: 104 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 29 (2%)
- Worked at home: 22 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (51%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
92.9% of residents of Allen township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English well).
3.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,630- In family households: 2,402 (724 male householders, 85 female householders)
712 spouses, 796 children (742 natural, 30 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 29 parents, 7 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 228 (84 male householders (67 living alone)), 101 female householders (78 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 353 2-persons, 211 3-persons, 172 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 25 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 145 1-person, 40 2-persons,
479 married couples with children.
61 single-parent households (26 men, 35 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 87
| Here: | 29.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 30
| Here: | 32.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |