Harris township, Ottawa County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Harris township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
60% of Harris township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2501
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 181
- South: 86
- West: 45
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
5 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,046
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 45
- 3 or 4: 64
- 5 to 9: 5
- 20 to 49: 2
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,900
Housing units in Harris township with a mortgage: 510 (66 second mortgage, 151 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 288
- Construction (13%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Top executives (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Harris township:
- German (53.5%)
- English (8.0%)
- Irish (5.8%)
- United States or American (4.6%)
- Hungarian (4.3%)
- Polish (4.1%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (42%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (17%)
- Other Eastern Europe (17%)
- Canada (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,167 (86%)
- Carpooled: 78 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 33 (2%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 64 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (1%)
5 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
96.0% of residents of Harris township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,864- In family households: 2,574 (752 male householders, 150 female householders)
788 spouses, 844 children (741 natural, 17 adopted, 86 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 8 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 290 (90 male householders (76 living alone)), 178 female householders (174 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 446 2-persons, 178 3-persons, 192 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 250 1-person, 12 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
618 married couples with children.
135 single-parent households (30 men, 105 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.2% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |