Benton township, Paulding County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Benton township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
65% of Benton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 562
- Northeast: 21
- Midwest: 385
- South: 41
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 373
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 15
- Mobile homes: 23
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,000
Housing units in Benton township with a mortgage: 179 (0 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 129
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Benton township:
- German (48.7%)
- United States or American (17.8%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- English (7.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.3%)
- Swiss (2.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Caribbean (60%)
- Germany (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 418 (83%)
- Carpooled: 46 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 30 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (36%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (1%)
2 people in religious group quarters
98.4% of residents of Benton township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,016- In family households: 915 (261 male householders, 50 female householders)
244 spouses, 301 children (281 natural, 6 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 32 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 2 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 101 (55 male householders (50 living alone)), 41 female householders (41 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 159 2-persons, 65 3-persons, 43 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 91 1-person, 5 2-persons,
185 married couples with children.
41 single-parent households (10 men, 31 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 32
| Here: | 24.4% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 37.5% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |