Butler County, Pennsylvania

• White (non-Hispanic) 181,959 92.2%
• Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3,981 2.0%
• Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 2,096 1.1%
• Asian (non-Hispanic) 2,832 1.4%
• Two or more races (non-Hispanic) 5,321 2.7%
• American Indian / Alaska Native (non-Hispanic) 46 0.0%
• Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander (non-Hispanic) 36 0.0%
• Some other race (non-Hispanic) 983 0.5%

• Under 18 37,980 19.3%
• 18–24 17,336 8.8%
• 25–44 46,775 23.7%
• 45–64 54,468 27.6%
• 65 and over 40,695 20.6%

Median household income

$95,450

90% interval $91,067–$99,833

+$17,918 vs PA · 4th of 67

Below poverty line

7.9%

90% interval 6.6%–9.2%

−3.7 pp vs PA · 62nd of 67

Unemployment (12-mo)

3.7%

−0.59 pp vs. state

County GDP

$14.5B

1.44% of state

Avg. annual pay

$67,864

Establishments

5,494

• Education & health services 20,142 22.6%
• Trade, transportation & utilities 19,875 22.3%
• Professional & business services 12,205 13.7%
• Manufacturing 10,734 12.1%
• Leisure & hospitality 9,044 10.2%
• Construction 4,391 4.9%
• Public administration 3,531 4.0%
• Other services 3,100 3.5%
• Financial activities 2,524 2.8%
• Information 1,257 1.4%
• Natural resources & mining 1,073 1.2%

The sectors listed cover 98.7% of covered employment; BLS withholds the rest to avoid disclosing individual employers.

Home ownership

76.9%

+7.6 pp vs PA · 24th of 67

Median gross rent

$1,041

−$168 vs PA · 21st of 67

Owner-occupied

62,184

Renter-occupied

18,640

• Moderately concentrated

  Top three sectors employ 59% of the county workforce. Substantial intra-sector overlap among panelists is likely; confirm employer relationships before sector-specific framing.

• Wide wage spread

  Highest-paid sector (Natural resources & mining, $106,802/yr) pays 4.6× the lowest (Leisure & hospitality, $23,343/yr). Stark intra-economy class divisions on the panel; calibrate damages and lost-wages framing to that range.

• Mixed business scale

  Average establishment employs 16 workers, a mix of institutional employers and small businesses. Both employed-by-large-institution and small-business-owner perspectives are likely on the panel.

• Republican 79,773 65.7%
• Democratic 40,661 33.5%
• Other / third-party 1,006 0.8%

• Spanish 2,297 1.2%
• German or other West Germanic 559 0.3%
• Chinese 532 0.3%
• Russian, Polish, or other Slavic 529 0.3%
• French, Haitian, or Cajun 291 0.2%
• Vietnamese 140 0.1%
• Arabic 92 0.0%
• Korean 74 0.0%
• Tagalog 72 0.0%

Households

80,824

Family households

52,026

64.4% of households

Married couples w/ children

15,948

30.7% of families

Single-mother families

2,713

5.2% of families

Veterans

11,432

7.2% of civilians 18+

• Catholic 58,766 30.3%
• Evangelical Protestant 22,525 11.6%
• Mainline Protestant 20,757 10.7%
• Other (non-Christian + minor traditions) 2,329 1.2%
• Orthodox 192 0.1%

Health insured

96.6%

±0.4 pp

Uninsured

3.4%

±0.4 pp

63rd of 67

With a disability

13.1%

±0.6 pp

57th of 67

Bachelor's or higher

39.4%

±1.1 pp

+4.2 pp vs PA · 8th of 67

Uninsured, under 65 (2024)

5.1%

90% interval 4.6%–5.6% · Census SAHIE

The under-65 uninsured rate is not comparable to the ACS insurance figures, which cover all ages.

Trial court

50th Judicial District Court of Common Pleas

Judges

5 (Court of Common Pleas judges per district (general civil + felony criminal + family + orphans' court jurisdiction); vintage 2026 pacourts.us; cross-checked against 42 Pa. C.S. § 911. Magisterial District Judges (limited jurisdiction: preliminary criminal, landlord-tenant, small civil up to $12K) are separately allocated and not counted here. Philadelphia Municipal Court (limited civil + minor criminal in Philadelphia only) also separate.)

Court seats

Butler

Traffic fatalities

15

9.42 per 100k adults (18+)

Fatal crashes

15