Salem township, Ottawa County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (70% naturalized citizens)
| Salem township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
66% of Salem township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4698
- Northeast: 122
- Midwest: 327
- South: 275
- West: 60
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $107,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
164 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,725
- One, attached: 35
- Two: 120
- 3 or 4: 85
- 5 to 9: 49
- 10 to 19: 5
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 169
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,300
Housing units in Salem township with a mortgage: 975 (88 second mortgage, 108 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 403
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Salem township:
- German (54.7%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- English (6.7%)
- United States or American (6.3%)
- Polish (4.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.3%)
- Italian (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (30%)
- Germany (21%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (17%)
- Ireland (13%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Polynesia (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,391 (88%)
- Carpooled: 212 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 29 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 87 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
164 people in nursing homes
97.0% of residents of Salem township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (89% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,385- In family households: 4,724 (1,304 male householders, 243 female householders)
1,296 spouses, 1,688 children (1,488 natural, 58 adopted, 142 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 17 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 17 other relatives, 85 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 661 (217 male householders (175 living alone)), 343 female householders (310 living alone)), 101 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 163 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 662 2-persons, 397 3-persons, 315 4-persons, 115 5-persons, 42 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 485 1-person, 59 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 13 4-persons,
1,069 married couples with children.
278 single-parent households (66 men, 212 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 2.1% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 30
| Here: | 17.1% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |