Jefferson township, Muskingum County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Jefferson township: | 0.1% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
64% of Jefferson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1577
- Northeast: 32
- Midwest: 49
- South: 69
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
8 people in nursing homes
2 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 536
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 63
- Mobile homes: 193
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,500
Housing units in Jefferson township with a mortgage: 222 (30 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 166
- Wood products (23%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Paper (4%)
- Wood products (40%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Woodworkers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Woodworkers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jefferson township:
- German (28.9%)
- United States or American (26.3%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- English (12.9%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Hungarian (1.8%)
- Italian (1.5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 625 (81%)
- Carpooled: 98 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (3%)
- Worked at home: 28 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (2%)
8 people in nursing homes
2 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
98.3% of residents of Jefferson township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,729- In family households: 1,408 (360 male householders, 104 female householders)
366 spouses, 518 children (430 natural, 19 adopted, 69 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 8 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 321 (93 male householders (75 living alone)), 175 female householders (154 living alone)), 53 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 10 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 208 2-persons, 96 3-persons, 100 4-persons, 46 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 229 1-person, 28 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
300 married couples with children.
126 single-parent households (33 men, 93 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 2.5% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 5.4% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |