Perkins township, Erie County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (81% naturalized citizens)
| Perkins township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
65% of Perkins township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9953
- Northeast: 757
- Midwest: 438
- South: 976
- West: 140
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $120,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Perkins township, Ohio:
- 793 people in nursing homes
- 104 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 82 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,807
- One, attached: 189
- Two: 111
- 3 or 4: 123
- 5 to 9: 168
- 10 to 19: 220
- 20 to 49: 142
- 50 or more: 114
- Mobile homes: 86
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,100
Housing units in Perkins township with a mortgage: 2,146 (270 second mortgage, 367 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,307
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Construction (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (27%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perkins township:
- German (40.4%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- English (9.4%)
- Italian (9.0%)
- United States or American (6.6%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (30%)
- Italy (16%)
- Canada (7%)
- Other Northern America (6%)
- Israel (5%)
- India (5%)
- Hong Kong (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,976 (91%)
- Carpooled: 288 (5%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 30 (1%)
- Taxi: 11 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (0%)
- Other means: 31 (1%)
- Worked at home: 124 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
People in group quarters in Perkins township, Ohio:
- 793 people in nursing homes
- 104 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 82 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in other group homes
97.2% of residents of Perkins township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,517- In family households: 9,960 (2,711 male householders, 640 female householders)
2,876 spouses, 3,296 children (3,089 natural, 110 adopted, 97 stepchildren), 172 grandchildren, 50 brothers or sisters, 70 parents, 76 other relatives, 69 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,557 (557 male householders (455 living alone)), 819 female householders (783 living alone)), 181 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,002 (906 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,658 2-persons, 654 3-persons, 643 4-persons, 301 5-persons, 71 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,238 1-person, 106 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 14 4-persons,
2,118 married couples with children.
469 single-parent households (120 men, 349 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 142
| Here: | 9.7% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 113
| Here: | 16.0% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
| Here: | 10.2% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |