Springfield township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Springfield township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Springfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1214
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 86
- South: 321
- West: 39
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $159,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 505
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 21
- 10 to 19: 1
- 20 to 49: 31
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 228
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,800
Housing units in Springfield township with a mortgage: 130 (14 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 101
- Construction (18%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Springfield township:
- United States or American (48.6%)
- German (15.8%)
- English (9.2%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- Italian (2.1%)
- Danish (1.4%)
- Dutch (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (38%)
- Germany (38%)
- France (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 483 (76%)
- Carpooled: 111 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 14 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Wood (23%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.8% of residents of Springfield township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,683- In family households: 1,432 (313 male householders, 129 female householders)
321 spouses, 551 children (497 natural, 6 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 10 other relatives, 52 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 251 (87 male householders (65 living alone)), 132 female householders (124 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 14 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 164 2-persons, 149 3-persons, 83 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 189 1-person, 28 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
941 married couples with children.
120 single-parent households (47 men, 73 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 42.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |