Nockamixon township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (87% naturalized citizens)
| Nockamixon township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
75% of Nockamixon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2411
- Northeast: 824
- Midwest: 123
- South: 85
- West: 28
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $225,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,175
- One, attached: 29
- Two: 36
- 3 or 4: 44
- 5 to 9: 14
- 10 to 19: 18
- Mobile homes: 95
Median worth of mobile homes: $147,900
Housing units in Nockamixon township with a mortgage: 598 (63 second mortgage, 151 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 181
- Construction (20%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Personal appearance workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Nockamixon township:
- German (29.3%)
- Irish (17.7%)
- Italian (9.5%)
- United States or American (6.8%)
- English (6.3%)
- Polish (5.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (47%)
- Germany (33%)
- United Kingdom (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,618 (83%)
- Carpooled: 95 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 18 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (1%)
- Walked: 55 (3%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 142 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (69%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.2% of residents of Nockamixon township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,517- In family households: 3,085 (843 male householders, 154 female householders)
890 spouses, 1,035 children (1,004 natural, 9 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 35 parents, 22 other relatives, 74 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 432 (201 male householders (129 living alone)), 144 female householders (122 living alone)), 87 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 446 2-persons, 240 3-persons, 192 4-persons, 74 5-persons, 40 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 251 1-person, 87 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
634 married couples with children.
120 single-parent households (43 men, 77 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 69
| Here: | 16.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 33
| Here: | 24.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |