Prairie township, Franklin County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
57% of Prairie 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, 54% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 12307
- Northeast: 729
- Midwest: 570
- South: 2078
- West: 254
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Prairie township, Ohio:
- 27 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 15 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 15 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 15 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,138
- One, attached: 188
- Two: 87
- 3 or 4: 308
- 5 to 9: 308
- 10 to 19: 431
- 20 to 49: 345
- 50 or more: 116
- Mobile homes: 29
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,600
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 3,536 (637 second mortgage, 460 home equity loan, 16 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 906
- Construction (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- United States or American (22.2%)
- German (19.7%)
- Irish (11.7%)
- English (8.9%)
- Italian (5.1%)
- Polish (2.0%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (31%)
- Ukraine (15%)
- Dominican Republic (7%)
- Other Eastern Africa (6%)
- Ecuador (5%)
- Russia (5%)
- Poland (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,827 (82%)
- Carpooled: 934 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 111 (1%)
- Taxi: 24 (0%)
- Walked: 198 (2%)
- Other means: 18 (0%)
- Worked at home: 230 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
People in group quarters in Prairie township, Ohio:
- 27 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 15 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 15 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 15 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
91.6% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
5.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (49% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,847- In family households: 14,703 (3,580 male householders, 1,223 female householders)
3,593 spouses, 5,045 children (4,594 natural, 80 adopted, 371 stepchildren), 316 grandchildren, 165 brothers or sisters, 110 parents, 243 other relatives, 428 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,144 (811 male householders (682 living alone)), 995 female householders (846 living alone)), 338 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 68 (29 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,051 2-persons, 1,188 3-persons, 926 4-persons, 429 5-persons, 138 6-persons, 71 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,528 1-person, 233 2-persons, 38 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
2,972 married couples with children.
1,128 single-parent households (326 men, 802 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 102
| Here: | 4.9% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 46
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 131
| Here: | 24.6% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |