Margaretta township, Erie County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Margaretta township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
71% of Margaretta township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5279
- Northeast: 144
- Midwest: 194
- South: 550
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,227
- One, attached: 29
- Two: 107
- 3 or 4: 27
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 3
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 197
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,400
Housing units in Margaretta township with a mortgage: 1,153 (114 second mortgage, 193 home equity loan, 10 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 608
- Transportation equipment (18%)
- Construction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Margaretta township:
- German (45.7%)
- United States or American (10.3%)
- English (8.7%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (22%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Russia (9%)
- Korea (9%)
- Honduras (9%)
- Austria (6%)
- Germany (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,834 (92%)
- Carpooled: 106 (3%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 18 (1%)
- Walked: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 91 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (45%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (3%)
96.3% of residents of Margaretta township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,244- In family households: 5,568 (1,508 male householders, 326 female householders)
1,520 spouses, 1,836 children (1,684 natural, 15 adopted, 137 stepchildren), 116 grandchildren, 29 brothers or sisters, 59 parents, 78 other relatives, 96 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 676 (229 male householders (195 living alone)), 347 female householders (305 living alone)), 100 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 845 2-persons, 376 3-persons, 394 4-persons, 160 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 500 1-person, 53 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 12 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
1,175 married couples with children.
253 single-parent households (75 men, 178 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 38
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 2.8% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 14.4% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |