Damascus township, Henry County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (36% naturalized citizens)
Damascus township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
69% of Damascus township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1458
- Northeast: 28
- Midwest: 70
- South: 96
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $62,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 595
- Two: 7
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 121
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,000
Housing units in Damascus township with a mortgage: 277 (15 second mortgage, 65 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 153
- Construction (20%)
- Food (11%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Food (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Damascus township:
- German (48.9%)
- United States or American (9.8%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- English (6.4%)
- Polish (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Swedish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (64%)
- United Kingdom (18%)
- Other Northern Europe (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 753 (86%)
- Carpooled: 85 (10%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Utility gas (43%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
95.0% of residents of Damascus township speak English at home.
4.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,677- In family households: 1,521 (449 male householders, 65 female householders)
465 spouses, 467 children (401 natural, 6 adopted, 60 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 17 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 156 (61 male householders (55 living alone)), 74 female householders (67 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 248 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 106 4-persons, 61 5-persons, 9 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 122 1-person, 8 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
350 married couples with children.
61 single-parent households (15 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
Here: | 12.6% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 3.4% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
Here: | 10.3% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |