Upper Frederick township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (26% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Frederick township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Upper Frederick 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, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2568
- Northeast: 255
- Midwest: 58
- South: 107
- West: 92
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $110,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
228 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 718
- One, attached: 299
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 20
- Mobile homes: 29
Median worth of mobile homes: $78,100
Housing units in Upper Frederick township with a mortgage: 644 (31 second mortgage, 126 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 181
- Construction (21%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Frederick township:
- German (35.1%)
- Irish (16.3%)
- Italian (13.1%)
- English (6.2%)
- Polish (4.6%)
- United States or American (4.3%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (37%)
- Germany (12%)
- Brazil (9%)
- Ireland (7%)
- Netherlands (7%)
- Greece (7%)
- Russia (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,205 (81%)
- Carpooled: 182 (12%)
- Walked: 25 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 75 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (52%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
228 people in nursing homes
97.9% of residents of Upper Frederick township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,911- In family households: 2,640 (735 male householders, 91 female householders)
739 spouses, 976 children (944 natural, 11 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 26 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 271 (113 male householders (83 living alone)), 115 female householders (100 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 230 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 300 2-persons, 196 3-persons, 212 4-persons, 75 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 183 1-person, 45 2-persons,
749 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (22 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 75
| Here: | 19.8% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 41
| Here: | 27.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
| Here: | 21.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |