Levittown was for Kids
Because so many
families bought their Levittown houses
as young adults, the neighborhoods
tended to be populated by roving groups
of very young children. These masses of
children required a new form of flexible
supervision. In Levittown, mothers could
stand at their windows and watch their
children. You not only watched your
children, you watched your neighbor’s
children and they watched yours.
Seems like every family in the early
days of Levittown had a bunch of young
kids. There were hundreds of kids in my
neighborhood. Especially in the 1950s and 1960s in Levittown, it
was not unusual for many of the families
you knew to have 5, 6 or 7 kids.Today, there are fewer large
families. This census data tell the
story:
1960 Population over
70,000
2000 Population was
53,966 (with even more houses)
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