Butler township, Adams County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (20% naturalized citizens)
| Butler township: | 3.4% |
| 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, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1900
- Northeast: 157
- Midwest: 41
- South: 442
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
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: 783
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 27
- 3 or 4: 12
- 50 or more: 4
- Mobile homes: 200
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,500
Housing units in Butler township with a mortgage: 322 (42 second mortgage, 79 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 184
- Construction (15%)
- Food (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Food (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Butler township:
- German (39.0%)
- United States or American (14.1%)
- English (10.7%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Italian (3.2%)
- Dutch (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (73%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Germany (5%)
- Other South America (4%)
- India (3%)
- Panama (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,046 (81%)
- Carpooled: 177 (14%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 30 (2%)
- Worked at home: 33 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (40%)
- Utility gas (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (7%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
95.3% of residents of Butler township speak English at home.
4.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 26% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,683- In family households: 2,368 (672 male householders, 99 female householders)
683 spouses, 751 children (698 natural, 23 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 58 other relatives, 51 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 315 (77 male householders (43 living alone)), 137 female householders (111 living alone)), 101 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 366 2-persons, 166 3-persons, 140 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 154 1-person, 39 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 11 4-persons,
526 married couples with children.
81 single-parent households (25 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 5.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 7.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 9.2% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |