Somerset township, Belmont County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (88% naturalized citizens)
Somerset township: | 1.4% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
55% of Somerset township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 599
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 126
- South: 178
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $18,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 311
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 23
- Mobile homes: 120
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Somerset township with a mortgage: 88 (3 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 111
- Construction (15%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Food (11%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (16%)
- Textile mills and textile products (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Private households (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Somerset township:
- United States or American (31.9%)
- English (21.1%)
- German (12.5%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.2%)
- Scottish (1.2%)
- European (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (65%)
- Guyana (24%)
- Germany (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 261 (76%)
- Carpooled: 66 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 6 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 3 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (4%)
97.3% of residents of Somerset township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (27% speak English well, 73% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 942- In family households: 826 (208 male householders, 90 female householders)
214 spouses, 261 children (242 natural, 4 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 9 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 116 (40 male householders (34 living alone)), 67 female householders (65 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 155 2-persons, 85 3-persons, 34 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 99 1-person, 8 2-persons,
296 married couples with children.
35 single-parent households (10 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
Here: | 10.0% |
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: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |