Chester township, Geauga County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (79% naturalized citizens)
| Chester township: | 6.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
77% of Chester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 30% 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: 8543
- Northeast: 892
- Midwest: 383
- South: 335
- West: 110
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $182,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
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
People in group quarters in Chester township, Ohio:
- 39 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,830
- One, attached: 34
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 13
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 116
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,700
Housing units in Chester township with a mortgage: 2,252 (204 second mortgage, 619 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,159
- Construction (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chester township:
- German (19.0%)
- Italian (18.8%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- English (8.7%)
- Polish (4.8%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
- Slovene (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (28%)
- Other Eastern Europe (11%)
- Germany (10%)
- Canada (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (5%)
- Poland (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,802 (90%)
- Carpooled: 225 (4%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 19 (0%)
- Other means: 9 (0%)
- Worked at home: 271 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Chester township, Ohio:
- 39 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 12 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
91.1% of residents of Chester township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
6.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (62% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,915- In family households: 9,996 (2,596 male householders, 637 female householders)
2,760 spouses, 3,438 children (3,221 natural, 75 adopted, 142 stepchildren), 77 grandchildren, 91 brothers or sisters, 153 parents, 143 other relatives, 101 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 919 (380 male householders (305 living alone)), 356 female householders (328 living alone)), 183 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 53 (38 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,457 2-persons, 714 3-persons, 600 4-persons, 315 5-persons, 123 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 633 1-person, 56 2-persons, 19 3-persons, 20 4-persons, 8 5-persons,
2,297 married couples with children.
307 single-parent households (70 men, 237 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 343
| Here: | 23.1% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 82
| Here: | 12.3% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 132
| Here: | 34.4% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |