Cheshire township, Gallia County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Cheshire township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
79% of Cheshire township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 816
- Northeast: 21
- Midwest: 26
- South: 377
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 454
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 134
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,300
Housing units in Cheshire township with a mortgage: 137 (33 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 125
- Utilities (24%)
- Construction (20%)
- Health care (8%)
- Rail transportation (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (5%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (5%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cheshire township:
- United States or American (32.3%)
- German (17.1%)
- English (14.5%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.1%)
- Czechoslovakian (2.6%)
- Welsh (2.5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 394 (87%)
- Carpooled: 31 (7%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 20 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
99.2% of residents of Cheshire township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,247- In family households: 1,163 (317 male householders, 61 female householders)
300 spouses, 426 children (386 natural, 6 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 32 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 12 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 84 (30 male householders (29 living alone)), 45 female householders (40 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 149 2-persons, 91 3-persons, 93 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 69 1-person, 6 2-persons,
247 married couples with children.
71 single-parent households (16 men, 55 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 28
| Here: | 16.9% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
| Here: | 5.9% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |