Dover township, Athens County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Dover township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
55% of Dover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3316
- Northeast: 183
- Midwest: 108
- South: 245
- West: 66
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.4%
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
9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,095
- One, attached: 53
- Two: 29
- 3 or 4: 142
- 5 to 9: 28
- 20 to 49: 22
- 50 or more: 11
- Mobile homes: 442
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,400
Housing units in Dover township with a mortgage: 377 (27 second mortgage, 27 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 326
- Educational services (15%)
- Construction (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Educational services (25%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dover township:
- United States or American (21.6%)
- German (16.6%)
- Irish (13.7%)
- English (11.5%)
- Hungarian (4.4%)
- Polish (3.0%)
- Welsh (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Western Asia (18%)
- Korea (16%)
- Japan (12%)
- Haiti (12%)
- Germany (9%)
- Spain (9%)
- Canada (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,481 (85%)
- Carpooled: 217 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 31 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (39%)
- Utility gas (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
9 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.5% of residents of Dover township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 28% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (18% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 29% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,029- In family households: 3,330 (802 male householders, 283 female householders)
775 spouses, 1,172 children (1,083 natural, 36 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 32 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 55 other relatives, 135 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 699 (276 male householders (180 living alone)), 285 female householders (245 living alone)), 138 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 469 2-persons, 294 3-persons, 197 4-persons, 81 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 35 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 425 1-person, 127 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
592 married couples with children.
275 single-parent households (77 men, 198 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |