Washington township, Hancock County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Washington township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
69% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% 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: 3877
- Northeast: 94
- Midwest: 205
- South: 259
- West: 78
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
53 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,473
- One, attached: 49
- Two: 61
- 3 or 4: 61
- 5 to 9: 18
- 10 to 19: 34
- 50 or more: 7
- Mobile homes: 291
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,100
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 740 (61 second mortgage, 120 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 475
- Transportation equipment (16%)
- Construction (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Warehousing and storage (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- German (49.4%)
- English (9.7%)
- United States or American (9.3%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
- Polish (1.8%)
- Italian (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- South Africa (19%)
- France (16%)
- Brazil (14%)
- Canada (13%)
- India (12%)
- Honduras (9%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,970 (87%)
- Carpooled: 181 (8%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 58 (3%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 28 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
53 people in nursing homes
95.9% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 51% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,574- In family households: 3,893 (1,000 male householders, 291 female householders)
1,046 spouses, 1,347 children (1,260 natural, 57 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 48 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 53 other relatives, 75 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 681 (223 male householders (177 living alone)), 379 female householders (358 living alone)), 79 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 53 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 580 2-persons, 300 3-persons, 247 4-persons, 121 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 535 1-person, 56 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
851 married couples with children.
215 single-parent households (59 men, 156 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 100
| Here: | 20.2% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 63
| Here: | 24.7% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 33
| Here: | 18.1% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |