Upper Gwynedd township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Gwynedd township: | 9.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Upper Gwynedd township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9778
- Northeast: 1397
- Midwest: 598
- South: 742
- West: 306
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $78,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
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 Upper Gwynedd township, Pennsylvania:
- 168 people in nursing homes
- 11 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 5 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,298
- One, attached: 1,073
- Two: 50
- 3 or 4: 202
- 5 to 9: 259
- 10 to 19: 296
- 20 to 49: 45
- 50 or more: 255
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $137,500
Housing units in Upper Gwynedd township with a mortgage: 3,247 (289 second mortgage, 577 home equity loan, 22 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 739
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Chemicals (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Construction (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Chemicals (15%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Computer specialists (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Gwynedd township:
- German (18.4%)
- Irish (17.2%)
- Italian (14.1%)
- English (6.9%)
- Polish (5.1%)
- United States or American (3.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (14%)
- India (11%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (10%)
- Vietnam (8%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Canada (5%)
- Taiwan (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,543 (85%)
- Carpooled: 480 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 38 (0%)
- Railroad: 233 (3%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 125 (2%)
- Other means: 14 (0%)
- Worked at home: 239 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Upper Gwynedd township, Pennsylvania:
- 168 people in nursing homes
- 11 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 5 people in other group homes
88.4% of residents of Upper Gwynedd township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
5.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
4.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (49% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 14,045- In family households: 12,472 (3,318 male householders, 698 female householders)
3,544 spouses, 4,327 children (4,116 natural, 96 adopted, 115 stepchildren), 133 grandchildren, 32 brothers or sisters, 149 parents, 126 other relatives, 145 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,573 (511 male householders (404 living alone)), 825 female householders (731 living alone)), 237 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 198 (173 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,645 2-persons, 957 3-persons, 898 4-persons, 356 5-persons, 143 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,135 1-person, 165 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
2,891 married couples with children.
331 single-parent households (63 men, 268 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 375
| Here: | 23.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 193
| Here: | 21.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 230
| Here: | 39.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |