Knox township, Jefferson County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Knox township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
68% of Knox township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4290
- Northeast: 229
- Midwest: 74
- South: 476
- West: 21
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,453
- One, attached: 79
- Two: 29
- 3 or 4: 49
- 5 to 9: 73
- 10 to 19: 30
- 20 to 49: 52
- 50 or more: 72
- Mobile homes: 475
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,500
Housing units in Knox township with a mortgage: 630 (25 second mortgage, 86 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 520
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Construction (9%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Knox township:
- United States or American (26.6%)
- Irish (19.3%)
- German (14.6%)
- English (8.3%)
- Slovak (6.4%)
- Italian (4.9%)
- Polish (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,718 (90%)
- Carpooled: 110 (6%)
- Walked: 65 (3%)
- Worked at home: 26 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (45%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Wood (1%)
98.0% of residents of Knox township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,114- In family households: 4,276 (1,079 male householders, 385 female householders)
1,122 spouses, 1,381 children (1,245 natural, 46 adopted, 90 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 55 brothers or sisters, 41 parents, 65 other relatives, 87 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 838 (306 male householders (252 living alone)), 442 female householders (405 living alone)), 90 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 694 2-persons, 418 3-persons, 228 4-persons, 104 5-persons, 20 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 657 1-person, 85 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
745 married couples with children.
332 single-parent households (80 men, 252 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 4.2% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 3.5% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |