East Butler is a tiny borough located in the state of Pennsylvania. With a population of 743 people and just one neighborhood, East Butler is the 895th largest community in Pennsylvania.
When you are in East Butler, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.32% of East Butler’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, East Butler is a borough of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in East Butler who work in management occupations (10.78%), sales jobs (9.78%), and food service (8.98%).
A relatively large number of people in East Butler telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.97% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
As is often the case in a small borough, East Butler doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in East Butler with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.48% of adults in East Butler have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in East Butler in 2022 was $28,024, which is low income relative to Pennsylvania, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,096 for a family of four. However, East Butler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call East Butler home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of East Butler residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in East Butler include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Finnish.
The most common language spoken in East Butler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry and 5.7% have Dutch ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in East Butler are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.2% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 32.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.1%), and 17.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.3%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in East Butler, PA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (39.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (25.1%), and residents who report English roots (11.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (5.7%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.