Doylestown township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Doylestown township: | 4.4% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
57% of Doylestown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11004
- Northeast: 3408
- Midwest: 1068
- South: 950
- West: 265
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $165,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Doylestown township, Pennsylvania:
- 816 people in nursing homes
- 798 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 116 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 72 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 21 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 11 people in religious group quarters
- 10 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 5 people in other workers' dormitories
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,070
- One, attached: 1,082
- Two: 86
- 3 or 4: 82
- 5 to 9: 134
- 10 to 19: 310
- 20 to 49: 65
- 50 or more: 226
- Mobile homes: 172
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,700
Housing units in Doylestown township with a mortgage: 3,291 (299 second mortgage, 541 home equity loan, 18 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,181
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Construction (9%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Health care (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (9%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Doylestown township:
- German (20.0%)
- Irish (18.7%)
- Italian (12.3%)
- English (11.5%)
- United States or American (6.0%)
- Polish (4.6%)
- Russian (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (14%)
- Canada (12%)
- Italy (7%)
- Other Eastern Europe (6%)
- Vietnam (4%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Germany (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,872 (85%)
- Carpooled: 492 (6%)
- Subway or elevated: 34 (0%)
- Railroad: 82 (1%)
- Taxi: 20 (0%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 87 (1%)
- Other means: 62 (1%)
- Worked at home: 476 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (48%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
People in group quarters in Doylestown township, Pennsylvania:
- 816 people in nursing homes
- 798 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 116 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 72 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 21 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 11 people in religious group quarters
- 10 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 5 people in other workers' dormitories
94.5% of residents of Doylestown township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (35% speak English very well, 44% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (61% speak English very well, 39% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 15,787- In family households: 14,014 (3,753 male householders, 724 female householders)
4,014 spouses, 5,031 children (4,812 natural, 140 adopted, 79 stepchildren), 125 grandchildren, 50 brothers or sisters, 87 parents, 121 other relatives, 109 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,773 (568 male householders (442 living alone)), 938 female householders (813 living alone)), 267 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,833 (1,621 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,804 2-persons, 916 3-persons, 1,157 4-persons, 470 5-persons, 99 6-persons, 31 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,255 1-person, 235 2-persons, 16 3-persons,
3,700 married couples with children.
317 single-parent households (71 men, 246 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 259
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 84
| Here: | 8.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 163
| Here: | 30.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |