Butler township, Butler County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Butler township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
68% of Butler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15483
- Northeast: 314
- Midwest: 507
- South: 602
- West: 121
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $100,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
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
People in group quarters in Butler township, Pennsylvania:
- 240 people in nursing homes
- 96 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 38 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 7 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,054
- One, attached: 120
- Two: 189
- 3 or 4: 140
- 5 to 9: 237
- 10 to 19: 358
- 20 to 49: 178
- 50 or more: 77
- Mobile homes: 164
Median worth of mobile homes: $35,400
Housing units in Butler township with a mortgage: 2,817 (247 second mortgage, 542 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,383
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Butler township:
- German (30.1%)
- Italian (11.9%)
- Irish (11.7%)
- Polish (6.1%)
- English (6.0%)
- United States or American (4.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (23%)
- Germany (18%)
- Dominican Republic (11%)
- France (9%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (6%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,692 (88%)
- Carpooled: 656 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 16 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 122 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 131 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Butler township, Pennsylvania:
- 240 people in nursing homes
- 96 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 38 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 7 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
96.4% of residents of Butler township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English well, 55% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,850- In family households: 14,311 (3,995 male householders, 919 female householders)
4,064 spouses, 4,572 children (4,309 natural, 119 adopted, 144 stepchildren), 149 grandchildren, 134 brothers or sisters, 74 parents, 158 other relatives, 246 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,539 (912 male householders (805 living alone)), 1,403 female householders (1,310 living alone)), 224 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 384 (339 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,427 2-persons, 1,071 3-persons, 935 4-persons, 377 5-persons, 85 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,115 1-person, 180 2-persons, 20 3-persons,
2,832 married couples with children.
531 single-parent households (129 men, 402 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 122
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 85
| Here: | 17.9% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |