Boston township, Summit County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (30% naturalized citizens)
Boston township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
63% of Boston township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1287
- Northeast: 127
- Midwest: 99
- South: 82
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $275,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
20 people in nursing homes
6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 530
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 171
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Boston township with a mortgage: 253 (29 second mortgage, 66 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 122
- Construction (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Boston township:
- German (25.2%)
- Irish (17.6%)
- English (9.7%)
- Italian (7.7%)
- Polish (7.6%)
- United States or American (5.5%)
- Hungarian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (25%)
- Ireland (15%)
- Germany (15%)
- Africa, n.e.c. (15%)
- Austria (10%)
- Yugoslavia (10%)
- Australia (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 804 (85%)
- Carpooled: 84 (9%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 57 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (45%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Other fuel (3%)
- Wood (1%)
20 people in nursing homes
6 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.9% of residents of Boston township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,613- In family households: 1,300 (360 male householders, 88 female householders)
363 spouses, 421 children (387 natural, 5 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 11 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 313 (129 male householders (106 living alone)), 129 female householders (99 living alone)), 55 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 28 (21 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 210 2-persons, 116 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 205 1-person, 48 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
228 married couples with children.
85 single-parent households (28 men, 57 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
Here: | 15.7% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
Here: | 25.6% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 13.3% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |