Wheeling township, Belmont County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Wheeling township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
71% of Wheeling 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, 63% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 860
- Northeast: 53
- Midwest: 16
- South: 543
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 515
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 122
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,300
Housing units in Wheeling township with a mortgage: 178 (7 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 214
- Construction (15%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Postsecondary teachers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheeling township:
- Polish (23.1%)
- Italian (16.0%)
- German (15.4%)
- United States or American (7.3%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Slovak (5.6%)
- Dutch (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (75%)
- Germany (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 553 (86%)
- Carpooled: 74 (11%)
- Walked: 11 (2%)
- Worked at home: 6 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (53%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Wood (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.8% of residents of Wheeling township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,473- In family households: 1,246 (317 male householders, 78 female householders)
342 spouses, 442 children (403 natural, 8 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 14 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 227 (106 male householders (81 living alone)), 73 female householders (67 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 153 2-persons, 93 3-persons, 95 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 148 1-person, 21 2-persons, 10 3-persons,
236 married couples with children.
80 single-parent households (27 men, 53 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 21
| Here: | 13.5% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 22.0% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |