Butler township, Scott County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Butler township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
42% of Butler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 19% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2525
- Northeast: 91
- Midwest: 961
- South: 674
- West: 235
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 905
- One, attached: 20
- Two: 197
- 3 or 4: 136
- 5 to 9: 12
- 10 to 19: 18
- Mobile homes: 558
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Butler township with a mortgage: 546 (34 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 133
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Butler township:
- United States or American (31.8%)
- Irish (14.4%)
- English (6.6%)
- German (6.0%)
- Italian (1.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
- Scottish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (29%)
- Thailand (16%)
- Germany (15%)
- Other Eastern Africa (15%)
- Philippines (10%)
- India (8%)
- Guyana (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,651 (83%)
- Carpooled: 247 (12%)
- Walked: 30 (2%)
- Other means: 48 (2%)
- Worked at home: 23 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
95.8% of residents of Butler township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,589- In family households: 4,160 (828 male householders, 409 female householders)
817 spouses, 1,776 children (1,525 natural, 29 adopted, 222 stepchildren), 84 grandchildren, 47 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 77 other relatives, 118 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 429 (160 male householders (119 living alone)), 194 female householders (184 living alone)), 75 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 389 2-persons, 340 3-persons, 298 4-persons, 158 5-persons, 41 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 303 1-person, 38 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
830 married couples with children.
190 single-parent households (49 men, 141 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 2.8% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 1.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 2.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |