Hilltown township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Hilltown township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Hilltown 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, 77% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9869
- Northeast: 938
- Midwest: 419
- South: 379
- West: 124
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
65 people in nursing homes
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,215
- One, attached: 567
- Two: 129
- 3 or 4: 71
- 5 to 9: 134
- 10 to 19: 64
- 20 to 49: 44
- 50 or more: 28
- Mobile homes: 118
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,000
Housing units in Hilltown township with a mortgage: 2,243 (280 second mortgage, 356 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 865
- Construction (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hilltown township:
- German (32.9%)
- Irish (15.5%)
- Italian (10.3%)
- English (8.3%)
- Polish (5.2%)
- United States or American (4.0%)
- Swiss (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (14%)
- Vietnam (14%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Turkey (12%)
- Poland (8%)
- India (8%)
- Yugoslavia (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,430 (86%)
- Carpooled: 457 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Railroad: 70 (1%)
- Walked: 93 (1%)
- Worked at home: 232 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (50%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (1%)
65 people in nursing homes
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
94.8% of residents of Hilltown township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (42% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,020- In family households: 10,955 (2,862 male householders, 541 female householders)
2,977 spouses, 4,026 children (3,818 natural, 67 adopted, 141 stepchildren), 130 grandchildren, 44 brothers or sisters, 87 parents, 109 other relatives, 179 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,065 (435 male householders (338 living alone)), 438 female householders (363 living alone)), 192 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 82 (65 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,333 2-persons, 762 3-persons, 754 4-persons, 391 5-persons, 95 6-persons, 68 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 701 1-person, 150 2-persons, 22 3-persons,
2,755 married couples with children.
370 single-parent households (99 men, 271 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 404
| Here: | 24.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 148
| Here: | 26.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 129
| Here: | 28.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |