Blue Creek township, Paulding County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Land area: 36.2 sq. mi.
Water area: 0.0 sq. mi.
Population: 804 (all rural)
| Males: 412 |  (51.2%) |
| Females: 392 |  (48.8%) |
Occupied houses/apartments: 804 (704 owner occupied, 100 renter occupied)
| % of renters here: | 12% |
| State: | 31% |
Races in Blue Creek township:
- White Non-Hispanic: 96.8%
- Black: 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native: 0.1%
- Asian: 0.2%
- Two or more races: 0.6%
Median age of males: 34.1
Median age of females: 36.3
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Average household size: 2.99
| Blue Creek township: | 3.0 people |
| Ohio: | 2.5 people |
Average family size: 3.30
| Blue Creek township: | $44,650 |
| Ohio: | $48,081 |
| Here: | $429 |
| State: | $569 |
Estimated median house or condo value in 2013: $89,619 (it was $72,500 in 2000)
| : | $89,619 |
| Ohio: | $127,000 |
| Population density: 22 people per square mile | (low). |
| This township: | 6.5% |
| Whole state: | 10.6% |
| This township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 4.8% |
Cities in this township include: Haviland.
Notable locations in this township outside city limits:
Notable locations in Blue Creek township: Van Erk Dairy (A), Blue Creek Township Hall (B). Display/hide their locations on the map
Cemeteries: Blue Creek Cemetery (1), Apostolic Cemetery (2). Display/hide their locations on the map
Creeks: Middle Creek (A), Cunningham Creek (B), Upper Prairie Creek (C). Display/hide their locations on the map
81% of Blue Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 691
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 71
- South: 9
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
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: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 265
- One, attached: 4
- Mobile homes: 24
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,900
Housing units in Blue Creek township with a mortgage: 129 (9 second mortgage, 21 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 82
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Plastics and rubber products (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (15%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (16%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blue Creek township:
- German (60.7%)
- United States or American (15.6%)
- Swiss (7.8%)
- English (3.9%)
- Irish (2.2%)
- Dutch (1.3%)
- Italian (1.1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 341 (90%)
- Carpooled: 12 (3%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (1%)
- Bicycle: 6 (2%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (37%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.8% of residents of Blue Creek township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 784- In family households: 732 (191 male householders, 36 female householders)
182 spouses, 295 children (283 natural, 7 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 0 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 52 (13 male householders (10 living alone)), 28 female householders (20 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 86 2-persons, 56 3-persons, 50 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 30 1-person, 11 2-persons,
196 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (7 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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: 12
| Here: | 52.2% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |