Falls township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Falls township: | 4.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Falls township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 36% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 22479
- Northeast: 7817
- Midwest: 688
- South: 1402
- West: 423
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
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 Falls township, Pennsylvania:
- 26 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 14 people in religious group quarters
- 12 people in other group homes
- 6 people in homes for the physically handicapped
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,435
- One, attached: 432
- Two: 152
- 3 or 4: 109
- 5 to 9: 424
- 10 to 19: 1,052
- 20 to 49: 816
- 50 or more: 517
- Mobile homes: 1,585
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Falls township with a mortgage: 5,784 (667 second mortgage, 1,097 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,328
- Construction (11%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Cashiers (3%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Falls township:
- Irish (19.8%)
- German (19.2%)
- Italian (14.1%)
- English (7.4%)
- Polish (7.4%)
- United States or American (4.5%)
- Slovak (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (14%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Ukraine (8%)
- Germany (6%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- Korea (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 14,706 (85%)
- Carpooled: 1,522 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 54 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 9 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 19 (0%)
- Railroad: 402 (2%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 21 (0%)
- Walked: 288 (2%)
- Other means: 67 (0%)
- Worked at home: 277 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (43%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
People in group quarters in Falls township, Pennsylvania:
- 26 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 14 people in religious group quarters
- 12 people in other group homes
- 6 people in homes for the physically handicapped
91.8% of residents of Falls township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
3.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (51% speak English very well, 49% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 34,811- In family households: 30,363 (7,139 male householders, 2,357 female householders)
7,286 spouses, 11,518 children (10,682 natural, 233 adopted, 603 stepchildren), 721 grandchildren, 94 brothers or sisters, 310 parents, 275 other relatives, 663 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,448 (1,644 male householders (1,322 living alone)), 2,024 female householders (1,757 living alone)), 780 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 58 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,518 2-persons, 2,382 3-persons, 2,210 4-persons, 956 5-persons, 310 6-persons, 120 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,079 1-person, 519 2-persons, 55 3-persons, 9 4-persons, 6 6-persons,
6,336 married couples with children.
1,876 single-parent households (509 men, 1,367 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 365
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 265
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 294
| Here: | 22.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |