Fairfield township, Highland County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (82% naturalized citizens)
| Fairfield township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
57% of Fairfield 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, 76% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2689
- Northeast: 45
- Midwest: 87
- South: 241
- West: 57
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $23,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 916
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 62
- 3 or 4: 43
- 5 to 9: 7
- 20 to 49: 31
- Mobile homes: 237
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,700
Housing units in Fairfield township with a mortgage: 448 (74 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 189
- Air transportation (13%)
- Construction (13%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (12%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Air transportation (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairfield township:
- United States or American (48.7%)
- German (12.8%)
- English (12.2%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.3%)
- Scottish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (27%)
- France (27%)
- Korea (27%)
- Germany (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,333 (82%)
- Carpooled: 228 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Railroad: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 24 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (5%)
96.9% of residents of Fairfield township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,137- In family households: 2,765 (734 male householders, 150 female householders)
683 spouses, 1,035 children (937 natural, 7 adopted, 91 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 30 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 372 (163 male householders (125 living alone)), 142 female householders (130 living alone)), 67 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 329 2-persons, 234 3-persons, 221 4-persons, 75 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 255 1-person, 38 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
613 married couples with children.
195 single-parent households (56 men, 139 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 2.3% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 11.4% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |