Plain township, Franklin County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Plain township: | 3.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
55% of Plain township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3980
- Northeast: 453
- Midwest: 322
- South: 664
- West: 194
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $241,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,070
- One, attached: 38
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 58
- 10 to 19: 27
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $225,000
Housing units in Plain township with a mortgage: 1,327 (184 second mortgage, 275 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 318
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Health care (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (12%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Top executives (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Plain township:
- German (24.2%)
- United States or American (14.1%)
- English (12.0%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Italian (8.9%)
- Polish (3.0%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (25%)
- India (11%)
- Korea (10%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Hong Kong (7%)
- Canada (7%)
- Vietnam (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,416 (86%)
- Carpooled: 185 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (0%)
- Other means: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 163 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
94.6% of residents of Plain township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,892- In family households: 5,510 (1,443 male householders, 295 female householders)
1,586 spouses, 1,974 children (1,861 natural, 54 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 57 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 40 other relatives, 83 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 382 (158 male householders (140 living alone)), 168 female householders (150 living alone)), 56 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 684 2-persons, 375 3-persons, 405 4-persons, 194 5-persons, 76 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 290 1-person, 30 2-persons, 6 5-persons,
1,560 married couples with children.
136 single-parent households (43 men, 93 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 144
| Here: | 16.5% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 82
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 40
| Here: | 35.7% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |