Palmyra township, Portage County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Palmyra township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
72% of Palmyra township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% 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: 2179
- Northeast: 160
- Midwest: 45
- South: 339
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
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: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 895
- One, attached: 46
- Two: 39
- 3 or 4: 11
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,500
Housing units in Palmyra township with a mortgage: 460 (98 second mortgage, 110 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 149
- Construction (12%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (14%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Palmyra township:
- German (30.6%)
- Italian (11.8%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- United States or American (8.7%)
- English (7.2%)
- Polish (4.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (57%)
- Hungary (43%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,256 (87%)
- Carpooled: 130 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 51 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (33%)
- Utility gas (24%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (3%)
97.0% of residents of Palmyra township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (29% speak English very well, 71% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,781- In family households: 2,600 (670 male householders, 155 female householders)
666 spouses, 886 children (792 natural, 49 adopted, 45 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 47 parents, 48 other relatives, 102 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 181 (94 male householders (59 living alone)), 43 female householders (43 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 341 2-persons, 199 3-persons, 185 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 38 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 102 1-person, 27 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
588 married couples with children.
96 single-parent households (25 men, 71 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 2.1% |
| 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% |