Chester township, Wayne County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (31% naturalized citizens)
Chester township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
69% of Chester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2446
- Northeast: 113
- Midwest: 60
- South: 181
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
37 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 871
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 15
- Mobile homes: 119
Median worth of mobile homes: $54,200
Housing units in Chester township with a mortgage: 343 (60 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 203
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chester township:
- German (40.6%)
- United States or American (11.5%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- English (7.2%)
- Swiss (4.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (31%)
- Germany (31%)
- Canada (21%)
- Brazil (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,221 (85%)
- Carpooled: 74 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (1%)
- Walked: 31 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 89 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Wood (8%)
- Other fuel (2%)
37 people in nursing homes
93.5% of residents of Chester township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 22% speak English not well, 22% don't speak English at all).
5.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,819- In family households: 2,599 (678 male householders, 129 female householders)
738 spouses, 962 children (859 natural, 8 adopted, 95 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 27 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 220 (135 male householders (111 living alone)), 60 female householders (60 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 37 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 325 2-persons, 160 3-persons, 194 4-persons, 73 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 171 1-person, 20 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
681 married couples with children.
92 single-parent households (32 men, 60 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 52
Here: | 14.6% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 32
Here: | 55.2% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |