Upper Mount Bethel township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (64% naturalized citizens)
| Upper Mount Bethel township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
71% of Upper Mount Bethel township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 14% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3108
- Northeast: 2343
- Midwest: 180
- South: 164
- West: 57
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
13 people in religious group quarters
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,943
- One, attached: 58
- Two: 132
- 3 or 4: 81
- 5 to 9: 12
- Mobile homes: 347
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,200
Housing units in Upper Mount Bethel township with a mortgage: 833 (79 second mortgage, 107 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 448
- Construction (19%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Apparel (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Upper Mount Bethel township:
- German (22.0%)
- Italian (15.8%)
- Irish (8.8%)
- Dutch (6.8%)
- English (6.6%)
- United States or American (6.1%)
- Polish (4.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (16%)
- Germany (13%)
- Russia (12%)
- Austria (11%)
- Pakistan (10%)
- Canada (10%)
- Korea (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,398 (83%)
- Carpooled: 338 (12%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 78 (3%)
- Worked at home: 86 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (72%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
13 people in religious group quarters
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
94.8% of residents of Upper Mount Bethel township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
3.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,053- In family households: 5,286 (1,448 male householders, 292 female householders)
1,616 spouses, 1,668 children (1,501 natural, 78 adopted, 89 stepchildren), 60 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 64 other relatives, 96 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 767 (295 male householders (203 living alone)), 338 female householders (305 living alone)), 134 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 17 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 815 2-persons, 357 3-persons, 347 4-persons, 146 5-persons, 75 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 508 1-person, 109 2-persons, 16 3-persons,
1,092 married couples with children.
178 single-parent households (67 men, 111 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 134
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 8.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 8.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |