Highland township, Defiance County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (65% naturalized citizens)
| Highland township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
71% of Highland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2293
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 164
- South: 228
- West: 7
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 857
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 14
- Mobile homes: 121
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,600
Housing units in Highland township with a mortgage: 427 (23 second mortgage, 66 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 211
- Transportation equipment (29%)
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Secondary school teachers (4%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Highland township:
- German (54.2%)
- United States or American (9.6%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- French (except Basque) (4.8%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- English (2.2%)
- Polish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,135 (85%)
- Carpooled: 131 (10%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 56 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (44%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (2%)
94.6% of residents of Highland township speak English at home.
5.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,764- In family households: 2,546 (727 male householders, 104 female householders)
723 spouses, 937 children (836 natural, 7 adopted, 94 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 10 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 218 (79 male householders (59 living alone)), 97 female householders (78 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 352 2-persons, 156 3-persons, 154 4-persons, 119 5-persons, 36 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 137 1-person, 25 2-persons, 14 3-persons,
575 married couples with children.
105 single-parent households (28 men, 77 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 51
| Here: | 12.6% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 12.7% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |