Wrightstown township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (68% naturalized citizens)
| Wrightstown township: | 4.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
67% of Wrightstown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 32% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1877
- Northeast: 479
- Midwest: 156
- South: 133
- West: 40
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 927
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 15
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $187,500
Housing units in Wrightstown township with a mortgage: 466 (34 second mortgage, 81 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 205
- Construction (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wrightstown township:
- Irish (22.4%)
- German (19.0%)
- Italian (12.9%)
- English (9.2%)
- United States or American (7.5%)
- Polish (3.0%)
- Russian (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (16%)
- Italy (8%)
- Germany (7%)
- Russia (7%)
- Ukraine (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- South Africa (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,174 (85%)
- Carpooled: 95 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Railroad: 22 (2%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 75 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (70%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Utility gas (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
94.2% of residents of Wrightstown township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
4.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,839- In family households: 2,603 (627 male householders, 163 female householders)
700 spouses, 996 children (949 natural, 6 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 39 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 236 (86 male householders (54 living alone)), 95 female householders (84 living alone)), 55 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 313 2-persons, 150 3-persons, 180 4-persons, 86 5-persons, 49 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 138 1-person, 38 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
704 married couples with children.
56 single-parent households (21 men, 35 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 73
| Here: | 19.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 13.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
| Here: | 22.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |