Northampton township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 9 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Northampton township: | 9.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
69% of Northampton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 29103
- Northeast: 4190
- Midwest: 953
- South: 759
- West: 485
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $222,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
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
People in group quarters in Northampton township, Pennsylvania:
- 224 people in nursing homes
- 24 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,146
- One, attached: 1,938
- Two: 77
- 3 or 4: 97
- 5 to 9: 306
- 10 to 19: 236
- 20 to 49: 32
- 50 or more: 296
- Mobile homes: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $171,900
Housing units in Northampton township with a mortgage: 8,631 (959 second mortgage, 1,559 home equity loan, 66 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,548
- Construction (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Northampton township:
- Irish (21.2%)
- German (15.6%)
- Italian (15.5%)
- Russian (7.4%)
- English (5.9%)
- United States or American (5.8%)
- Polish (5.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ukraine (26%)
- Russia (18%)
- Germany (7%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Italy (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
- Korea (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 17,146 (85%)
- Carpooled: 1,332 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 24 (0%)
- Railroad: 603 (3%)
- Taxi: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 119 (1%)
- Other means: 91 (0%)
- Worked at home: 795 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (32%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Northampton township, Pennsylvania:
- 224 people in nursing homes
- 24 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 8 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
87.6% of residents of Northampton township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
10.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (73% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (76% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 39,078- In family households: 36,768 (9,418 male householders, 1,564 female householders)
9,875 spouses, 14,531 children (13,749 natural, 361 adopted, 421 stepchildren), 260 grandchildren, 74 brothers or sisters, 282 parents, 482 other relatives, 282 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,310 (816 male householders (695 living alone)), 1,227 female householders (1,111 living alone)), 267 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 267 (221 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,535 2-persons, 2,536 3-persons, 2,978 4-persons, 1,388 5-persons, 365 6-persons, 180 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,806 1-person, 218 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 5 5-persons,
9,880 married couples with children.
847 single-parent households (190 men, 657 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 726
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 514
| Here: | 18.4% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 522
| Here: | 28.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |