Plain township, Wayne County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Plain township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
62% of Plain township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2455
- Northeast: 90
- Midwest: 42
- South: 220
- West: 70
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
27 people in homes for the mentally ill
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 910
- Two: 6
- 5 to 9: 11
- Mobile homes: 118
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,800
Housing units in Plain township with a mortgage: 387 (39 second mortgage, 61 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 211
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plain township:
- German (44.0%)
- Irish (13.7%)
- United States or American (9.3%)
- English (8.9%)
- French (except Basque) (4.1%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Polish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,210 (85%)
- Carpooled: 112 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 78 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (30%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
27 people in homes for the mentally ill
16 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.5% of residents of Plain township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,850- In family households: 2,690 (740 male householders, 123 female householders)
728 spouses, 978 children (854 natural, 49 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 17 other relatives, 62 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 160 (92 male householders (81 living alone)), 61 female householders (61 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 44 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 387 2-persons, 184 3-persons, 171 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 142 1-person, 11 2-persons,
674 married couples with children.
98 single-parent households (32 men, 66 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 7.7% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 14.7% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |