Decatur township, Washington County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Decatur township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
73% of Decatur township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 600
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 13
- South: 590
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $275,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 371
- One, attached: 9
- Mobile homes: 185
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,700
Housing units in Decatur township with a mortgage: 72 (0 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 72
- Chemicals (28%)
- Construction (12%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Chemicals (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (22%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Religious workers (5%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Cashiers (9%)
- Art and design workers (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Secondary school teachers (6%)
- Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Decatur township:
- United States or American (32.4%)
- German (19.5%)
- English (18.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.0%)
- Irish (5.3%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (56%)
- Germany (44%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 435 (75%)
- Carpooled: 85 (15%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 54 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Utility gas (17%)
- Wood (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
98.6% of residents of Decatur township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,265- In family households: 1,143 (325 male householders, 45 female householders)
356 spouses, 383 children (368 natural, 0 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 7 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 122 (42 male householders (27 living alone)), 55 female householders (46 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 191 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 67 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 73 1-person, 24 2-persons,
250 married couples with children.
53 single-parent households (19 men, 34 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
| Here: | 20.6% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 39.4% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 17.6% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |