page_title: Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Pennsylvania Dutch barn near the neighborhood of Newtown, Breinigsville, Upper Macungie Township, Lehigh County.
context_page_description: Upper Macungie Township is a township in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state and was created in 1832 when Macungie Township was divided into Upper and Lower Macungie Townships.
  The population of Upper Macungie Township was 20,063 as of the 2010 U.S. census thus making it one of the fastest growing areas in the state of Pennsylvania in terms of total population.
  Upper Macungie also has among the highest median family and household income rates in the state of Pennsylvania with an average nearly double that of the state overall.
context_section_description: According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 26.3 square miles (68.2 km²), of which, 26.2 square miles (68.0 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²) of it (0.38%) is water. It is drained by the Little Lehigh Creek and the Jordan Creek into the Lehigh River.
  Upper Macungie's villages include Breinigsville, Fogelsville, Haafsville (also in Weisenberg Township,) Krocksville, Kuhnsville, Newtown, Ruppsville, and Trexlertown.
  The township has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Dfa) and the hardiness zone is 6b. The monthly average temperature in Fogelsville ranges from 28.5 °F in January to 73.3 °F in July.
caption: A Pennsylvania Dutch style barn near Newtown Road in Breinigsville
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