Polk township, Crawford County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Polk township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
71% of Polk township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1569
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 25
- South: 109
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $30,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 573
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 112
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Polk township with a mortgage: 200 (18 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 41
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Polk township:
- United States or American (41.0%)
- German (24.1%)
- English (19.9%)
- Irish (3.4%)
- Scottish (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
- Danish (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 735 (84%)
- Carpooled: 109 (13%)
- Worked at home: 28 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (57%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Wood (13%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.8% of residents of Polk township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,747- In family households: 1,606 (427 male householders, 59 female householders)
422 spouses, 625 children (550 natural, 22 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 22 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 141 (36 male householders (20 living alone)), 75 female householders (63 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 38 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 167 2-persons, 98 3-persons, 137 4-persons, 72 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 83 1-person, 27 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
389 married couples with children.
58 single-parent households (29 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |