Hocking township, Fairfield County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (46% naturalized citizens)
Hocking township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
58% of Hocking township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4258
- Northeast: 150
- Midwest: 109
- South: 396
- West: 47
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $205,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
1,659 people in state prisons
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,116
- One, attached: 20
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 64
Median worth of mobile homes: $60,600
Housing units in Hocking township with a mortgage: 593 (59 second mortgage, 129 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 220
- Construction (15%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hocking township:
- German (26.2%)
- United States or American (17.0%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- English (8.1%)
- African (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
- Italian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (27%)
- Jamaica (27%)
- Canada (27%)
- Mexico (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,438 (86%)
- Carpooled: 141 (8%)
- Walked: 28 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 61 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (4%)
1,659 people in state prisons
95.6% of residents of Hocking township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,344- In family households: 3,150 (923 male householders, 118 female householders)
896 spouses, 1,027 children (971 natural, 16 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 52 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 47 other relatives, 71 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 194 (105 male householders (93 living alone)), 76 female householders (76 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,667 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 504 2-persons, 195 3-persons, 201 4-persons, 95 5-persons, 39 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 169 1-person, 12 2-persons,
579 married couples with children.
116 single-parent households (42 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 63
Here: | 16.4% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 87
Here: | 19.1% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 6.3% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |