Cherry township, Butler County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Cherry township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
70% of Cherry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 925
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 44
- South: 37
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $35,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
22 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 293
- Mobile homes: 119
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,900
Housing units in Cherry township with a mortgage: 104 (17 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 44
- Construction (22%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Carpenters (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cherry township:
- German (36.2%)
- Italian (13.5%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- United States or American (9.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.9%)
- English (5.4%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (63%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (38%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 380 (84%)
- Carpooled: 50 (11%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 12 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (53%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Wood (13%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
22 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
98.2% of residents of Cherry township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,031- In family households: 923 (261 male householders, 39 female householders)
251 spouses, 319 children (296 natural, 8 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 3 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 108 (48 male householders (41 living alone)), 39 female householders (29 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 22 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 123 2-persons, 73 3-persons, 58 4-persons, 34 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 70 1-person, 15 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
212 married couples with children.
30 single-parent households (20 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 16.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |