Union township, Knox County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (89% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
67% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% 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: 2136
- Northeast: 96
- Midwest: 48
- South: 160
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
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
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 740
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 58
- 3 or 4: 60
- 5 to 9: 8
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 95
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,800
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 300 (43 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 158
- Construction (16%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- United States or American (25.8%)
- German (21.3%)
- Irish (12.7%)
- English (10.2%)
- Dutch (6.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.2%)
- Swiss (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Other Eastern Europe (33%)
- Canada (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 745 (72%)
- Carpooled: 162 (16%)
- Taxi: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 64 (6%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 60 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (2%)
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
90.7% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
8.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,482- In family households: 2,229 (519 male householders, 118 female householders)
521 spouses, 956 children (877 natural, 18 adopted, 61 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 26 other relatives, 54 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 253 (93 male householders (78 living alone)), 130 female householders (123 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 4 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 250 2-persons, 122 3-persons, 143 4-persons, 61 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 38 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 201 1-person, 18 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
555 married couples with children.
112 single-parent households (36 men, 76 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 43
| Here: | 11.7% |
| 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: 6
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |