Willshire township, Van Wert County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Willshire township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
64% of Willshire township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 924
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 675
- South: 116
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $51,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 634
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 78
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,200
Housing units in Willshire township with a mortgage: 320 (2 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 157
- Transportation equipment (21%)
- Construction (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Willshire township:
- German (55.4%)
- United States or American (10.5%)
- English (9.4%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Dutch (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 719 (87%)
- Carpooled: 92 (11%)
- Bicycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 9 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Wood (5%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.8% of residents of Willshire township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,760- In family households: 1,534 (393 male householders, 68 female householders)
388 spouses, 579 children (527 natural, 0 adopted, 52 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 17 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 35 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 226 (116 male householders (89 living alone)), 84 female householders (84 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 159 2-persons, 101 3-persons, 117 4-persons, 58 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 173 1-person, 26 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
394 married couples with children.
60 single-parent households (26 men, 34 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
Here: | 0.8% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 7.3% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
Here: | 35.5% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |