Plainfield township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Plainfield township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
73% of Plainfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 15% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4124
- Northeast: 1131
- Midwest: 83
- South: 131
- West: 60
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $96,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
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
83 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,803
- One, attached: 94
- Two: 117
- 3 or 4: 47
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 122
Median worth of mobile homes: $48,000
Housing units in Plainfield township with a mortgage: 1,031 (117 second mortgage, 194 home equity loan, 16 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 502
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plainfield township:
- German (25.7%)
- Italian (24.7%)
- English (10.4%)
- Pennsylvania German (8.8%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- United States or American (5.5%)
- Dutch (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Romania (29%)
- Barbados (15%)
- United Kingdom (14%)
- Germany (13%)
- Canada (7%)
- Other Western Europe (7%)
- Italy (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,420 (86%)
- Carpooled: 281 (10%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 38 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (0%)
- Worked at home: 65 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (68%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
83 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.1% of residents of Plainfield township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (91% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,583- In family households: 4,998 (1,458 male householders, 198 female householders)
1,431 spouses, 1,601 children (1,433 natural, 59 adopted, 109 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 43 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 60 other relatives, 121 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 585 (164 male householders (117 living alone)), 316 female householders (278 living alone)), 105 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 85 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 729 2-persons, 393 3-persons, 343 4-persons, 139 5-persons, 48 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 395 1-person, 80 2-persons, 5 4-persons,
1,052 married couples with children.
118 single-parent households (38 men, 80 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 91
| Here: | 14.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 53
| Here: | 15.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 35
| Here: | 25.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |