Lower Mount Bethel township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Lower Mount Bethel township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Lower Mount Bethel township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 32% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1946
- Northeast: 1047
- Midwest: 41
- South: 80
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,050
- One, attached: 61
- Two: 61
- 3 or 4: 27
- Mobile homes: 148
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Lower Mount Bethel township with a mortgage: 466 (48 second mortgage, 124 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 266
- Construction (15%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Mount Bethel township:
- German (26.2%)
- Italian (20.5%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- English (9.5%)
- United States or American (8.3%)
- Polish (3.7%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (29%)
- Colombia (28%)
- Germany (20%)
- Other Northern America (11%)
- Canada (8%)
- Portugal (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,469 (88%)
- Carpooled: 123 (7%)
- Walked: 26 (2%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 33 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (76%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
7 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.5% of residents of Lower Mount Bethel township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (37% speak English very well, 63% speak English well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,221- In family households: 2,836 (799 male householders, 100 female householders)
802 spouses, 1,044 children (980 natural, 42 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 5 other relatives, 48 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 385 (179 male householders (129 living alone)), 144 female householders (144 living alone)), 62 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 364 2-persons, 191 3-persons, 217 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 273 1-person, 45 2-persons, 5 5-persons,
662 married couples with children.
74 single-parent households (25 men, 49 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 37
| Here: | 15.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 29
| Here: | 33.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |