Levittown is a census-designated place (CDP) and planned community in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

[11] At peak production, this highly regimented process enabled Levitt's workers to produce a finished house every sixteen minutes.

Locations for churches and other public facilities were set aside on main thoroughfares such as the Levittown Parkway, likewise donated by the builder to religious groups and other organizations.

Other amenities included Olympic-sized public pools, parks, greenbelts, baseball fields and playgrounds, and a shopping center located in neighboring Tullytown borough that was considered large and modern at the time of its construction (and in fact was the largest east of the Mississippi).

The first set of four sample homes were put on display in a swatch of land near the future Levittown Shop-a-Rama, and an estimated 30,000 people viewed them in that first weekend.

[13] Residents, who are sometimes called Levittowners, were first expected to comply with a lengthy list of rules and regulations regarding the upkeep of their homes and use of their property.

Two of these "rules" included a prohibition on hanging laundry out to dry on Sunday and not allowing homeowners to fence off their yards.

These proved unenforceable over time, particularly when backyard pools became financially accessible to the working class and privacy concerns drove many to fence off their yards.

[14] In the years since Levitt & Sons ended construction, three- and four-story "garden apartments" and a number of non-Levitt owner-occupied houses have been built in Levittown.

[15] This did not prevent Bea and Lew Wechsler, a Jewish couple from the Bronx, from connecting an African-American family to a neighbor who desired to sell his home.

Levittown's first Black couple, William and Daisy Myers, bought a home in the Dogwood Hollow section in 1957.

[16] Their move to Levittown was marked with racist harassment and mob violence, which required intervention by state authorities.

[17] This led to an injunction and criminal charges against the harassers while the Myerses and their supporters refused to surrender and received national acclaim for their efforts.

For instance, Daisy Myers has been hailed as "The Rosa Parks of the North",[18] who helped expose the northern states' problems with racial inequality of that time.

[19] She died Dec. 5, 2011, in York, Pa.[20] The NAACP and the ACLU opposed Levitt’s racist policies, and the Federal Housing Administration threatened to refuse mortgages on his next Levittown.

Levitt still refused to sell to blacks, and developed plans for yet another whites-only Levittown—this one to be in Willingboro Township, N.J.—while fighting legal challenges in New Jersey courts.

[21] The community's otherwise placid exterior was again disturbed during the so-called suburban gas riots of June 1979 in the wake of the Camp David Peace Accords, which resulted in a second embargo by Arab oil-producing nations.

The unrest occurred June 24–25, 1979, as lines swelled and tempers flared in the heart of Levittown at an intersection known as Five Points, a location then surrounded by six service stations, two of which were severely damaged by vandalism in the riots.

LPRA Headquarters (and other landmarks) of this prototypical post-war suburb of sometimes mythic importance have been the focus of historic preservation efforts.

Every year, the parade steps off from St Joseph the Worker Church[needs update], and proceeds two miles (3 km) on New Falls Road to Conwell-Egan Catholic High School.

[23] The center's largest, anchor department store (Pomeroys, which was acquired by Boscov's) and other chain retailers such as Food Fair, Woolworth's, JC Penney, Kresges, Yards, Lobel's, W.T.

Some students attend schools run by Catholic, Lutheran, evangelical Protestant and Quaker organizations, in and around Levittown.

It is adjacent to and nearly surrounds Fairless Hills, a suburban community more modest in scale, but that shares many of Levittown's characteristics.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 10.2 square miles (26 km2), of which 0.5 km2 (0.59%) is water.