Grafton township, Lorain County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Grafton township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
73% of Grafton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2215
- Northeast: 100
- Midwest: 101
- South: 227
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 897
- One, attached: 11
- Mobile homes: 4
Housing units in Grafton township with a mortgage: 452 (63 second mortgage, 97 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 135
- Construction (18%)
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Construction (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grafton township:
- German (29.9%)
- United States or American (12.2%)
- Polish (10.9%)
- Irish (10.6%)
- English (6.5%)
- Italian (6.5%)
- Slovak (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,059 (79%)
- Carpooled: 136 (10%)
- Motorcycle: 10 (1%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 106 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (3%)
97.1% of residents of Grafton township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,675- In family households: 2,553 (618 male householders, 160 female householders)
702 spouses, 878 children (780 natural, 19 adopted, 79 stepchildren), 69 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 59 other relatives, 41 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 122 (61 male householders (43 living alone)), 43 female householders (43 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 329 2-persons, 150 3-persons, 165 4-persons, 90 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 86 1-person, 18 2-persons,
613 married couples with children.
63 single-parent households (36 men, 27 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
Here: | 6.3% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
Here: | 13.4% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
Here: | 23.3% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |