Lower Saucon township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Lower Saucon township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Lower Saucon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7537
- Northeast: 1167
- Midwest: 300
- South: 310
- West: 170
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $528,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Lower Saucon township, Pennsylvania:
- 48 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 48 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,185
- One, attached: 395
- Two: 53
- 3 or 4: 85
- 5 to 9: 79
- 10 to 19: 53
- 20 to 49: 29
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,100
Housing units in Lower Saucon township with a mortgage: 2,091 (194 second mortgage, 322 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 959
- Construction (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (18%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Physicians and surgeons (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Saucon township:
- German (27.6%)
- Italian (11.5%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- Hungarian (5.4%)
- English (4.9%)
- Polish (4.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (20%)
- Korea (12%)
- Taiwan (10%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Canada (8%)
- Italy (7%)
- Portugal (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,237 (89%)
- Carpooled: 309 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 27 (1%)
- Railroad: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (0%)
- Other means: 26 (1%)
- Worked at home: 143 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (45%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Utility gas (20%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
People in group quarters in Lower Saucon township, Pennsylvania:
- 48 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 48 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 20 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.0% of residents of Lower Saucon township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (38% speak English very well, 62% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,815- In family households: 8,782 (2,383 male householders, 514 female householders)
2,585 spouses, 2,977 children (2,774 natural, 133 adopted, 70 stepchildren), 70 grandchildren, 39 brothers or sisters, 45 parents, 116 other relatives, 53 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,033 (449 male householders (338 living alone)), 392 female householders (344 living alone)), 192 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 69 (46 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,305 2-persons, 618 3-persons, 616 4-persons, 246 5-persons, 97 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 682 1-person, 139 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 9 4-persons,
1,995 married couples with children.
239 single-parent households (76 men, 163 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 240
| Here: | 21.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 63
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 45
| Here: | 17.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |