Williams township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (66% naturalized citizens)
Williams township: | 2.5% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Williams township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2970
- Northeast: 1116
- Midwest: 99
- South: 132
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $87,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,513
- One, attached: 41
- Two: 27
- 3 or 4: 46
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 96
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $54,100
Housing units in Williams township with a mortgage: 906 (42 second mortgage, 148 home equity loan, 12 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 318
- Construction (16%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Paper (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Williams township:
- German (27.9%)
- Italian (13.0%)
- Irish (11.7%)
- United States or American (7.9%)
- English (5.9%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (19%)
- United Kingdom (14%)
- Hungary (12%)
- Poland (12%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (10%)
- Honduras (10%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,984 (87%)
- Carpooled: 123 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (0%)
- Railroad: 7 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 19 (1%)
- Walked: 19 (1%)
- Worked at home: 104 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (65%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
94.6% of residents of Williams township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,468- In family households: 3,959 (1,068 male householders, 192 female householders)
1,125 spouses, 1,374 children (1,281 natural, 22 adopted, 71 stepchildren), 48 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 63 parents, 43 other relatives, 46 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 509 (204 male householders (168 living alone)), 202 female householders (152 living alone)), 103 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 530 2-persons, 250 3-persons, 278 4-persons, 149 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 320 1-person, 74 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
855 married couples with children.
130 single-parent households (46 men, 84 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 106
Here: | 18.6% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
Here: | 3.0% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
Here: | 18.1% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |