Prospect township, Marion County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (78% naturalized citizens)
| Prospect township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
63% of Prospect township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1905
- Northeast: 30
- Midwest: 91
- South: 148
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 757
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 21
- Mobile homes: 44
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,200
Housing units in Prospect township with a mortgage: 432 (54 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 143
- Transportation equipment (19%)
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Financial managers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prospect township:
- German (29.9%)
- United States or American (24.3%)
- English (9.2%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- Welsh (4.6%)
- Italian (3.7%)
- European (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (22%)
- Germany (22%)
- Spain (22%)
- Canada (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 896 (86%)
- Carpooled: 107 (10%)
- Walked: 24 (2%)
- Worked at home: 20 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Wood (1%)
99.0% of residents of Prospect township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,229- In family households: 2,000 (545 male householders, 123 female householders)
555 spouses, 732 children (650 natural, 0 adopted, 82 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 6 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 229 (97 male householders (85 living alone)), 93 female householders (80 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 290 2-persons, 172 3-persons, 142 4-persons, 57 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 165 1-person, 23 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
478 married couples with children.
96 single-parent households (37 men, 59 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.2% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 20
| Here: | 35.1% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |