Butler is a very small city located in the state of Missouri. With a population of 4,246 people and just one neighborhood, Butler is the 165th largest community in Missouri.
Unlike some cities, Butler isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Butler are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Butler is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Butler who work in food service (11.44%), sales jobs (11.15%), and teaching (6.56%).
Being a small city, Butler does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Butler is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.66% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Butler in 2022 was $20,640, which is low income relative to Missouri and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,560 for a family of four. However, Butler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Butler also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.39% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Butler home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Butler residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Butler include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Butler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Of particular note, 3.6% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.6%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Butler are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.0% of U.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, 38.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.7%), and 7.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.7% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Butler, MO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.5%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (57.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.