Harrison township, Muskingum County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Harrison township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
65% of Harrison township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 96% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1425
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 17
- South: 96
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $68,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 503
- One, attached: 1
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 206
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,600
Housing units in Harrison township with a mortgage: 181 (9 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 119
- Construction (14%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (18%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Harrison township:
- United States or American (37.5%)
- German (24.2%)
- Irish (12.2%)
- English (6.3%)
- Czech (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- Italian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (81%)
- Germany (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 602 (88%)
- Carpooled: 54 (8%)
- Walked: 11 (2%)
- Worked at home: 21 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Wood (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
98.2% of residents of Harrison township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,590- In family households: 1,414 (376 male householders, 79 female householders)
387 spouses, 521 children (438 natural, 13 adopted, 70 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 6 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 176 (58 male householders (52 living alone)), 94 female householders (78 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 204 2-persons, 87 3-persons, 84 4-persons, 54 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 130 1-person, 21 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
318 married couples with children.
110 single-parent households (34 men, 76 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 42.1% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |