Lower Nazareth township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (69% naturalized citizens)
Lower Nazareth township: | 3.8% |
Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Lower Nazareth township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3496
- Northeast: 1055
- Midwest: 200
- South: 169
- West: 117
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $225,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,658
- One, attached: 79
- Two: 44
- 3 or 4: 24
- 5 to 9: 11
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,000
Housing units in Lower Nazareth township with a mortgage: 1,108 (98 second mortgage, 219 home equity loan, 26 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 389
- Construction (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lower Nazareth township:
- German (29.1%)
- Italian (15.3%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- English (7.2%)
- Pennsylvania German (5.5%)
- Polish (4.9%)
- United States or American (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Lebanon (18%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (11%)
- Germany (10%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- Italy (9%)
- Portugal (7%)
- Cuba (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,384 (87%)
- Carpooled: 171 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (1%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 129 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (41%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Wood (1%)
3 people in religious group quarters
92.9% of residents of Lower Nazareth township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (89% speak English very well, 5% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
3.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,256- In family households: 4,986 (1,403 male householders, 154 female householders)
1,445 spouses, 1,823 children (1,746 natural, 29 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 21 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 45 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 270 (99 male householders (82 living alone)), 135 female householders (125 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 558 2-persons, 370 3-persons, 410 4-persons, 166 5-persons, 53 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 207 1-person, 21 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
1,276 married couples with children.
125 single-parent households (37 men, 88 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 87
Here: | 10.5% |
Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 96
Here: | 22.9% |
Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 32
Here: | 20.4% |
Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |