Short Creek township, Harrison County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (33% naturalized citizens)
Short Creek township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
79% of Short Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 611
- Northeast: 37
- Midwest: 2
- South: 417
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 394
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 72
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,500
Housing units in Short Creek township with a mortgage: 150 (19 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 138
- Construction (20%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (32%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Short Creek township:
- Polish (28.1%)
- German (11.4%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- United States or American (9.5%)
- Italian (7.7%)
- Dutch (7.4%)
- English (7.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (67%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 396 (85%)
- Carpooled: 52 (11%)
- Walked: 11 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 5 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (54%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (5%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
97.8% of residents of Short Creek township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,070- In family households: 925 (275 male householders, 24 female householders)
252 spouses, 299 children (276 natural, 14 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 18 parents, 4 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 145 (60 male householders (41 living alone)), 61 female householders (54 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 111 2-persons, 110 3-persons, 55 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 95 1-person, 26 2-persons,
164 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (10 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 2
Here: | 8.3% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |