Perry township, Gallia County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Perry township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
68% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1070
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 22
- South: 359
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 351
- Mobile homes: 189
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,000
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 76 (0 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 42
- Truck transportation (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Wood products (9%)
- Construction (7%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (15%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- U. S. Postal service (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (17%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Plant and system operators (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (19%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Registered nurses (10%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- United States or American (29.7%)
- German (18.2%)
- Swiss (9.6%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- Welsh (6.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.2%)
- English (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 331 (68%)
- Carpooled: 97 (20%)
- Walked: 26 (5%)
- Worked at home: 34 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Wood (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
86.8% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
11.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (37% speak English very well, 55% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 55% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,477- In family households: 1,329 (299 male householders, 63 female householders)
299 spouses, 610 children (567 natural, 11 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 0 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 148 (38 male householders (34 living alone)), 82 female householders (72 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 132 2-persons, 103 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 28 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 106 1-person, 10 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
305 married couples with children.
58 single-parent households (24 men, 34 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 45
| Here: | 13.5% |
| 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: 11
| Here: | 30.6% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |