Slippery Rock township, Butler County, Pennsylvania (PA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Slippery Rock township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 4.1% |
42% of Slippery Rock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Pennsylvania.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4165
- Northeast: 167
- Midwest: 249
- South: 340
- West: 54
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $145,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Slippery Rock township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,819 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 29 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 18 people in nursing homes
- 17 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 921
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 80
- 5 to 9: 46
- 10 to 19: 117
- 20 to 49: 41
- 50 or more: 29
- Mobile homes: 189
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,000
Housing units in Slippery Rock township with a mortgage: 429 (35 second mortgage, 85 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 147
- Construction (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Health care (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Educational services (23%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Health care (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (13%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Slippery Rock township:
- German (27.5%)
- Italian (15.4%)
- Irish (13.3%)
- English (9.1%)
- United States or American (3.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.3%)
- Polish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (18%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Greece (11%)
- India (10%)
- Japan (9%)
- Other South Central Asia (8%)
- Korea (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,679 (76%)
- Carpooled: 217 (10%)
- Walked: 209 (9%)
- Other means: 28 (1%)
- Worked at home: 80 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Electricity (32%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (3%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Slippery Rock township, Pennsylvania:
- 1,819 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 29 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 18 people in nursing homes
- 17 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
93.4% of residents of Slippery Rock township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
4.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (32% speak English very well, 23% speak English not well, 45% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,359- In family households: 2,328 (697 male householders, 99 female householders)
718 spouses, 714 children (689 natural, 7 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 18 parents, 11 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,031 (324 male householders (161 living alone)), 259 female householders (133 living alone)), 448 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,881 (71 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 407 2-persons, 133 3-persons, 194 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 15 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 294 1-person, 172 2-persons, 58 3-persons, 59 4-persons,
490 married couples with children.
99 single-parent households (29 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 6.0% |
| 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: 14
| Here: | 0.6% |
| Pennsylvania: | 37.3% |