Harrison township, Licking County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (64% naturalized citizens)
| Harrison township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
63% of Harrison township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4958
- Northeast: 267
- Midwest: 307
- South: 729
- West: 204
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $168,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
23 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,215
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 30
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Harrison township with a mortgage: 1,472 (190 second mortgage, 322 home equity loan, 18 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 318
- Construction (15%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Harrison township:
- German (27.1%)
- United States or American (17.1%)
- English (12.2%)
- Irish (11.9%)
- Italian (4.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (30%)
- Greece (18%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Italy (16%)
- Germany (14%)
- France (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,104 (86%)
- Carpooled: 320 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 37 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (0%)
- Worked at home: 140 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
23 people in nursing homes
97.2% of residents of Harrison township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 25% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,537- In family households: 6,163 (1,650 male householders, 252 female householders)
1,717 spouses, 2,327 children (2,125 natural, 58 adopted, 144 stepchildren), 91 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 45 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 374 (160 male householders (101 living alone)), 130 female householders (107 living alone)), 84 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 23 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 783 2-persons, 400 3-persons, 469 4-persons, 155 5-persons, 83 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 208 1-person, 74 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
1,560 married couples with children.
150 single-parent households (51 men, 99 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 130
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 29
| Here: | 6.7% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 46
| Here: | 33.6% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |