Union township, Mercer County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
66% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1288
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 45
- South: 104
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 494
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 7
- Mobile homes: 72
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,700
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 249 (30 second mortgage, 44 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 91
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Construction (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (14%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (10%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (55.7%)
- United States or American (13.1%)
- English (6.9%)
- Irish (3.5%)
- Russian (3.1%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 587 (85%)
- Carpooled: 70 (10%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 5 (1%)
- Railroad: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (60%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Wood (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.4% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,494- In family households: 1,344 (376 male householders, 45 female householders)
370 spouses, 503 children (444 natural, 19 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 0 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 150 (57 male householders (47 living alone)), 72 female householders (63 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 172 2-persons, 84 3-persons, 105 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 110 1-person, 19 2-persons,
284 married couples with children.
63 single-parent households (34 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |