Butler township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (82% naturalized citizens)
| Butler township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
78% of Butler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3347
- Northeast: 82
- Midwest: 12
- South: 73
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Butler township, Pennsylvania:
- 76 people in nursing homes
- 25 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,330
- One, attached: 147
- Two: 17
- 5 to 9: 13
- Mobile homes: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,300
Housing units in Butler township with a mortgage: 652 (14 second mortgage, 123 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 528
- Machinery (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Paper (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Butler township:
- German (34.1%)
- Irish (13.8%)
- Polish (8.2%)
- Dutch (7.6%)
- Lithuanian (7.3%)
- Italian (6.2%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (82%)
- United Kingdom (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,209 (81%)
- Carpooled: 163 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 53 (4%)
- Worked at home: 55 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (64%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Coal or coke (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Butler township, Pennsylvania:
- 76 people in nursing homes
- 25 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 11 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.3% of residents of Butler township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,458- In family households: 3,031 (875 male householders, 144 female householders)
842 spouses, 997 children (951 natural, 21 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 53 grandchildren, 37 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 42 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 427 (171 male householders (130 living alone)), 212 female householders (212 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 130 (60 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 508 2-persons, 228 3-persons, 197 4-persons, 69 5-persons, 17 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 342 1-person, 41 2-persons,
512 married couples with children.
89 single-parent households (47 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 60
| Here: | 19.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 16.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 33
| Here: | 19.5% |
| Pennsylvania: | 13.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 44
| Here: | 37.0% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |