Perry township, Lawrence County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (56% naturalized citizens)
Perry township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
63% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 12% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2992
- Northeast: 87
- Midwest: 138
- South: 3493
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $91,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
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Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,983
- One, attached: 34
- Two: 118
- 3 or 4: 112
- 5 to 9: 79
- 10 to 19: 16
- 20 to 49: 43
- 50 or more: 35
- Mobile homes: 509
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,800
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 841 (91 second mortgage, 62 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 445
- Construction (13%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Petroleum and coal products (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- United States or American (34.0%)
- Irish (17.0%)
- English (16.3%)
- German (10.4%)
- Welsh (2.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- Polish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,434 (87%)
- Carpooled: 242 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 18 (1%)
- Walked: 22 (1%)
- Other means: 22 (1%)
- Worked at home: 55 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Utility gas (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
97.5% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,798- In family households: 6,114 (1,618 male householders, 454 female householders)
1,544 spouses, 2,197 children (2,040 natural, 31 adopted, 126 stepchildren), 124 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 57 other relatives, 97 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 684 (246 male householders (205 living alone)), 361 female householders (361 living alone)), 77 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 928 2-persons, 508 3-persons, 455 4-persons, 136 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 566 1-person, 23 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
1,152 married couples with children.
493 single-parent households (120 men, 373 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 44
Here: | 5.8% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 3.1% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
Here: | 6.5% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |