Upper Milford township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (70% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Milford township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Upper Milford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5690
- Northeast: 683
- Midwest: 172
- South: 191
- West: 74
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,247
- One, attached: 258
- Two: 35
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 11
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Upper Milford township with a mortgage: 1,398 (183 second mortgage, 211 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 563
- Construction (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Computer specialists (3%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Milford township:
- German (39.9%)
- Irish (8.4%)
- Italian (7.6%)
- Pennsylvania German (7.2%)
- United States or American (6.5%)
- English (5.6%)
- Polish (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (30%)
- Vietnam (22%)
- Canada (18%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Other Western Europe (11%)
- Ukraine (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,411 (85%)
- Carpooled: 292 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 41 (1%)
- Worked at home: 226 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (51%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
94.6% of residents of Upper Milford township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English well, 25% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,960- In family households: 6,386 (1,774 male householders, 304 female householders)
1,831 spouses, 2,197 children (2,083 natural, 39 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 76 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 54 parents, 66 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 574 (260 male householders (195 living alone)), 202 female householders (167 living alone)), 112 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 879 2-persons, 485 3-persons, 476 4-persons, 176 5-persons, 46 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 362 1-person, 89 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
1,455 married couples with children.
146 single-parent households (45 men, 101 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 49
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 48
| Here: | 10.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 105
| Here: | 47.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |