Elyria township, Lorain County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (80% naturalized citizens)
| Elyria township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
72% of Elyria township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 86% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 90% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2709
- Northeast: 230
- Midwest: 55
- South: 434
- West: 52
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,333
- One, attached: 23
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 35
- 5 to 9: 20
Housing units in Elyria township with a mortgage: 629 (83 second mortgage, 136 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 455
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (14%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elyria township:
- German (26.0%)
- Irish (14.2%)
- English (8.2%)
- Hungarian (8.2%)
- Italian (7.2%)
- United States or American (6.8%)
- Polish (6.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (34%)
- Egypt (13%)
- Other Western Asia (10%)
- Greece (9%)
- Poland (9%)
- Jordan (8%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,392 (89%)
- Carpooled: 136 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 22 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (85%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
94.5% of residents of Elyria township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (41% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other language at home (37% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,597- In family households: 3,216 (853 male householders, 210 female householders)
871 spouses, 1,143 children (1,041 natural, 41 adopted, 61 stepchildren), 65 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 5 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 381 (101 male householders (78 living alone)), 222 female householders (185 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 557 2-persons, 207 3-persons, 181 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 263 1-person, 54 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
518 married couples with children.
110 single-parent households (38 men, 72 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
| Here: | 8.4% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 20
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |