Decatur township, Lawrence County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Decatur township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
77% of Decatur township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 84% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 655
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 6
- South: 213
- West: 0
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 9.2%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 174
- Two: 14
- Mobile homes: 133
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,100
Housing units in Decatur township with a mortgage: 41 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 37
- Construction (17%)
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Recyclable material merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Health care (42%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Other direct selling establishments (10%)
- Personal and laundry services (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (15%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (20%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (13%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Decatur township:
- United States or American (44.0%)
- German (23.9%)
- Irish (12.3%)
- Dutch (3.9%)
- English (3.6%)
- Welsh (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 242 (90%)
- Carpooled: 14 (5%)
- Railroad: 7 (3%)
- Other means: 6 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (45%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
96.8% of residents of Decatur township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 891- In family households: 818 (186 male householders, 57 female householders)
178 spouses, 348 children (311 natural, 11 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 0 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 73 (17 male householders (6 living alone)), 33 female householders (28 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 81 2-persons, 62 3-persons, 66 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 22 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 34 1-person, 10 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
163 married couples with children.
73 single-parent households (18 men, 55 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |