Harrison township, Montgomery County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Harrison township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
56% of Harrison township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 17327
- Northeast: 913
- Midwest: 1119
- South: 3744
- West: 260
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $73,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Harrison township, Ohio:
- 320 people in nursing homes
- 85 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 21 people in other group homes
- 19 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 9 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,519
- One, attached: 328
- Two: 160
- 3 or 4: 862
- 5 to 9: 1,111
- 10 to 19: 611
- 20 to 49: 374
- 50 or more: 510
- Mobile homes: 314
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Harrison township with a mortgage: 4,125 (412 second mortgage, 445 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,931
- Construction (9%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Harrison township:
- German (16.1%)
- United States or American (13.2%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- English (5.6%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
- Polish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (12%)
- Ethiopia (11%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- India (9%)
- Korea (6%)
- Pakistan (6%)
- Other Eastern Africa (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,727 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,191 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 285 (3%)
- Subway or elevated: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 124 (1%)
- Other means: 56 (1%)
- Worked at home: 154 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Harrison township, Ohio:
- 320 people in nursing homes
- 85 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 21 people in other group homes
- 19 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 9 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
95.3% of residents of Harrison township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (31% speak English very well, 49% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other language at home (55% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 38% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 23,684- In family households: 18,546 (4,137 male householders, 2,238 female householders)
4,142 spouses, 6,553 children (5,972 natural, 169 adopted, 412 stepchildren), 385 grandchildren, 187 brothers or sisters, 103 parents, 214 other relatives, 587 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,138 (1,767 male householders (1,451 living alone)), 2,671 female householders (2,387 living alone)), 700 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 446 (327 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,059 2-persons, 1,759 3-persons, 929 4-persons, 416 5-persons, 138 6-persons, 74 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,838 1-person, 536 2-persons, 41 3-persons, 20 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
2,586 married couples with children.
2,252 single-parent households (339 men, 1,913 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 479
| Here: | 20.4% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 165
| Here: | 13.4% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 105
| Here: | 10.5% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |