Census Reporter Logo Census Reporter

Washington township, Lehigh County, PA

6,559 Population
23.6 square miles 278.4 people per square mile

Census data: ACS 2023 5-year unless noted

Find data for this place

Hover for margins of error and contextual data.

Demographics

47.2 ±3.4 Median age
  • about 20 percent higher than the figure in Lehigh County: 39.3 ±0.2
  • about 20 percent higher than the figure in Pennsylvania: 40.9 ±0.1

Economics

$43,117 ±$4,917 Per capita income
  • a little higher than the amount in Lehigh County: $41,804 ±$898
  • about the same as the amount in Pennsylvania: $43,104 ±$186
$84,861 ±$9,807 Median household income
  • about 10 percent higher than the amount in Lehigh County: $77,493 ±$2,229
  • about 10 percent higher than the amount in Pennsylvania: $76,081 ±$310

3.1% ±1.9% (200  ±123) Persons below poverty line
  • about one-quarter of the rate in Lehigh County: 11.9% 43,403 (±0.8% / ±3,048)
  • about one-quarter of the rate in Pennsylvania: 11.8% 1,480,981 (±0.2% / ±19,287)

29.7 minutes ±1.8 (95,905  ±12,606) Mean travel time to work
  • about 20 percent higher than the figure in Lehigh County: 25.1 3,982,830 (±0.6 / ±116,295)
  • about 10 percent higher than the figure in Pennsylvania: 26.6 141,916,510 (±0.1 / ±598,943)

Families

2,762 ±260 Number of households
  • Lehigh County: 143,445 ±761
  • Pennsylvania: 5,235,339 ±9,438
2.4 ±0.2 (6,550  ±20) Persons per household
  • about 90 percent of the figure in Lehigh County: 2.6 366,088 (±0 / ±140)
  • about the same as the figure in Pennsylvania: 2.4 12,564,867

1.7% ±2.4% (22  ±32) Women 15-50 who gave birth during past year
  • about one-third of the rate in Lehigh County: 4.9% † 4,212 (±0.7% / ±611)
  • about one-third of the rate in Pennsylvania: 5.1% 146,799 (±0.1% / ±3,390)

Housing

2,841 ±267 Number of housing units
  • Lehigh County: 150,547 ±160
  • Pennsylvania: 5,779,663 ±1,198

$268,800 ±$14,368 Median value of owner-occupied housing units
  • a little less than the amount in Lehigh County: $276,100 ±$3,832
  • about 10 percent higher than the amount in Pennsylvania: $240,500 ±$622

3% ±2.2% (197  ±142.9) Moved since previous year
  • about one-quarter of the rate in Lehigh County: 10.9% 40,584 (±0.8% / ±2,971.2)
  • about one-quarter of the rate in Pennsylvania: 11.1% 1,424,815 (±0.1% / ±15,518.9)

Social

89.3% ±7.9% (4,349  ±540.6) High school grad or higher
  • about the same as the rate in Lehigh County: 90.3% 232,667 (±1.4% / ±3,677.9)
  • a little less than the rate in Pennsylvania: 91.9% 8,412,410 (±0.3% / ±22,879.7)
20.6% ±4.5% (1,001  ±236.6) Bachelor's degree or higher
  • about three-fifths of the rate in Lehigh County: 33.4% 86,009 (±0.9% / ±2,219.3)
  • about three-fifths of the rate in Pennsylvania: 34.5% 3,157,318 (±0.2% / ±14,182.6)

N/A Persons with language other than English spoken at home

2.5% ±1.8% (162  ±121) Foreign-born population
  • about one-fifth of the rate in Lehigh County: 13.3% 50,056
  • about one-third of the rate in Pennsylvania: 7.4% 961,247

10.2% ±5.6% (555  ±307) Population with veteran status
  • more than 1.5 times the rate in Lehigh County: 5.8% 16,876 (±0.3% / ±982)
  • about 1.5 times the rate in Pennsylvania: 6.4% 656,112 (±0.1% / ±5,751)
555 Total veterans ±307 517 Male ±294 38 Female ±56

Hover for margins of error and contextual data.