Butler township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Butler township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
65% of Butler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5681
- Northeast: 557
- Midwest: 187
- South: 441
- West: 96
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Butler township, Pennsylvania:
- 529 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
- 210 people in nursing homes
- 16 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,444
- One, attached: 70
- Two: 45
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 16
- Mobile homes: 146
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,500
Housing units in Butler township with a mortgage: 1,250 (87 second mortgage, 234 home equity loan, 13 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 753
- Construction (11%)
- Food (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Butler township:
- Italian (17.4%)
- German (17.4%)
- Polish (14.5%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- United States or American (6.2%)
- English (6.0%)
- Slovak (5.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Romania (15%)
- Korea (13%)
- Poland (10%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (9%)
- Germany (8%)
- Vietnam (7%)
- Africa, n.e.c. (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,977 (88%)
- Carpooled: 211 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 26 (1%)
- Walked: 56 (2%)
- Other means: 24 (1%)
- Worked at home: 75 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Coal or coke (8%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Butler township, Pennsylvania:
- 529 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
- 210 people in nursing homes
- 16 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
94.6% of residents of Butler township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,418- In family households: 5,669 (1,759 male householders, 169 female householders)
1,681 spouses, 1,827 children (1,692 natural, 91 adopted, 44 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 48 brothers or sisters, 41 parents, 55 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 749 (252 male householders (181 living alone)), 369 female householders (341 living alone)), 128 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 748 (123 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 889 2-persons, 490 3-persons, 376 4-persons, 116 5-persons, 49 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 522 1-person, 84 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
1,188 married couples with children.
209 single-parent households (72 men, 137 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 93
| Here: | 15.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 190
| Here: | 24.7% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 74
| Here: | 39.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |