Lexington township, Stark County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (59% naturalized citizens)
Lexington township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
64% of Lexington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 79% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4442
- Northeast: 335
- Midwest: 171
- South: 509
- West: 75
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
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
151 people in nursing homes
42 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,832
- One, attached: 38
- Two: 121
- 3 or 4: 43
- 10 to 19: 20
- 20 to 49: 26
- 50 or more: 7
- Mobile homes: 98
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,200
Housing units in Lexington township with a mortgage: 846 (77 second mortgage, 115 home equity loan, 14 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 607
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Wood products (3%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lexington township:
- German (24.6%)
- United States or American (15.1%)
- English (11.1%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- Italian (9.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Swiss (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (41%)
- France (35%)
- Mexico (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,072 (85%)
- Carpooled: 229 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 36 (1%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 29 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (2%)
151 people in nursing homes
42 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.6% of residents of Lexington township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,380- In family households: 4,732 (1,232 male householders, 290 female householders)
1,238 spouses, 1,633 children (1,521 natural, 44 adopted, 68 stepchildren), 109 grandchildren, 26 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 85 other relatives, 83 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 648 (185 male householders (136 living alone)), 297 female householders (220 living alone)), 166 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 179 (164 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 637 2-persons, 355 3-persons, 299 4-persons, 149 5-persons, 69 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 356 1-person, 107 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
990 married couples with children.
238 single-parent households (61 men, 177 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
Here: | 6.2% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 45
Here: | 11.9% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 46
Here: | 40.4% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |