Franklin township, Mercer County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Franklin township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
65% of Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1994
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 128
- South: 113
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 923
- One, attached: 29
- Two: 26
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 313
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,000
Housing units in Franklin township with a mortgage: 325 (24 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 265
- Machinery (14%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Franklin township:
- German (61.7%)
- United States or American (13.1%)
- English (10.8%)
- Irish (3.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Italian (1.7%)
- Dutch (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (83%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 942 (86%)
- Carpooled: 77 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 42 (4%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 25 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.0% of residents of Franklin township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,279- In family households: 1,927 (547 male householders, 86 female householders)
586 spouses, 628 children (584 natural, 2 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 15 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 352 (163 male householders (134 living alone)), 132 female householders (122 living alone)), 57 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 349 2-persons, 93 3-persons, 94 4-persons, 54 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 256 1-person, 26 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
470 married couples with children.
55 single-parent households (26 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
| Here: | 0.3% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |