Upper Makefield township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (72% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Makefield township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
62% of Upper Makefield 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, 38% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3089
- Northeast: 2728
- Midwest: 385
- South: 321
- West: 181
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $580,100
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: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,309
- One, attached: 271
- Two: 9
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $625,000
Housing units in Upper Makefield township with a mortgage: 1,646 (150 second mortgage, 306 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 427
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Health care (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Top executives (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other financial specialists (6%)
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers (6%)
- Physicians and surgeons (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Advertising, marketing, promotions, public relations, and sales managers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Makefield township:
- Irish (19.1%)
- German (17.1%)
- Italian (15.1%)
- English (11.1%)
- Polish (5.9%)
- European (3.7%)
- United States or American (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (14%)
- Germany (11%)
- Israel (9%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- Bolivia (6%)
- Korea (5%)
- Ukraine (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,692 (79%)
- Carpooled: 270 (8%)
- Railroad: 97 (3%)
- Taxi: 14 (0%)
- Walked: 63 (2%)
- Other means: 23 (1%)
- Worked at home: 270 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (64%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
93.3% of residents of Upper Makefield township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
3.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (89% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,180- In family households: 6,681 (1,916 male householders, 237 female householders)
1,988 spouses, 2,375 children (2,180 natural, 119 adopted, 76 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 29 brothers or sisters, 51 parents, 33 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 499 (210 male householders (156 living alone)), 181 female householders (154 living alone)), 108 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 937 2-persons, 417 3-persons, 485 4-persons, 216 5-persons, 68 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 310 1-person, 60 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 14 4-persons,
1,720 married couples with children.
139 single-parent households (30 men, 109 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 298
| Here: | 32.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 196
| Here: | 40.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 50
| Here: | 48.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |