Forward township, Butler County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Forward township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
77% of Forward township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2461
- Northeast: 26
- Midwest: 47
- South: 83
- West: 39
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 922
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 133
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Forward township with a mortgage: 321 (13 second mortgage, 73 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 237
- Construction (21%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Forward township:
- German (44.3%)
- Italian (9.1%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- English (6.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.4%)
- Polish (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Taiwan (29%)
- United Kingdom (19%)
- Germany (19%)
- Japan (19%)
- Malaysia (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 999 (79%)
- Carpooled: 184 (15%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 14 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 51 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (55%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.1% of residents of Forward township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,687- In family households: 2,438 (669 male householders, 96 female householders)
641 spouses, 925 children (855 natural, 36 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 21 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 249 (113 male householders (83 living alone)), 96 female householders (86 living alone)), 40 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 311 2-persons, 166 3-persons, 176 4-persons, 83 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 169 1-person, 40 2-persons,
593 married couples with children.
89 single-parent households (26 men, 63 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
| Here: | 8.1% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.3% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 10.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |