Rochester township, Lorain County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Rochester township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
71% of Rochester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 619
- Northeast: 41
- Midwest: 33
- South: 64
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 266
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 6
Housing units in Rochester township with a mortgage: 115 (6 second mortgage, 28 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 37
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Truck transportation (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- U. S. Postal service (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (22%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rochester township:
- German (31.8%)
- English (14.9%)
- Irish (13.7%)
- United States or American (9.9%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- European (2.4%)
- Slovak (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ukraine (67%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 287 (74%)
- Carpooled: 73 (19%)
- Walked: 6 (2%)
- Worked at home: 22 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (30%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (14%)
- Utility gas (2%)
97.4% of residents of Rochester township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 763- In family households: 720 (211 male householders, 25 female householders)
191 spouses, 261 children (254 natural, 7 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 2 other relatives, 3 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 43 (28 male householders (26 living alone)), 12 female householders (10 living alone)), 3 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 102 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 49 4-persons, 10 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 36 1-person, 4 2-persons,
162 married couples with children.
25 single-parent households (13 men, 12 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 2.0% |
| 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: 14
| Here: | 60.9% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |