Butler township, Branch County, Michigan (MI) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 9 (83% naturalized citizens)
| Butler township: | 8.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
68% of Butler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Michigan.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5832
- Northeast: 378
- Midwest: 187
- South: 669
- West: 78
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $126,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,644
- One, attached: 50
- Two: 39
- 3 or 4: 43
- 5 to 9: 19
- 10 to 19: 5
- 20 to 49: 29
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $126,800
Housing units in Butler township with a mortgage: 1,477 (234 second mortgage, 362 home equity loan, 10 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 719
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (18%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Butler township:
- German (32.3%)
- English (10.5%)
- United States or American (10.4%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- Hungarian (6.2%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- Italian (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (34%)
- United Kingdom (24%)
- Ethiopia (12%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Canada (7%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (6%)
- Ukraine (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,222 (88%)
- Carpooled: 314 (9%)
- Subway or elevated: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 22 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 75 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (76%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
96.9% of residents of Butler township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (55% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,267- In family households: 6,645 (1,828 male householders, 342 female householders)
1,871 spouses, 2,229 children (2,009 natural, 79 adopted, 141 stepchildren), 133 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 55 other relatives, 140 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 622 (219 male householders (193 living alone)), 365 female householders (353 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 946 2-persons, 515 3-persons, 446 4-persons, 169 5-persons, 65 6-persons, 29 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 546 1-person, 38 2-persons,
375 married couples with children.
56 single-parent households (18 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 215
| Here: | 23.7% |
| Michigan: | 11.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 35
| Here: | 8.2% |
| Michigan: | 8.7% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 33
| Here: | 17.3% |
| Michigan: | 16.5% |