Union township, Muskingum County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
54% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 29% 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: 3188
- Northeast: 417
- Midwest: 184
- South: 356
- West: 88
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Union township, Ohio:
- 1,051 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 92 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 10 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 957
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 48
- 3 or 4: 80
- 5 to 9: 82
- 10 to 19: 22
- 20 to 49: 19
- 50 or more: 21
- Mobile homes: 86
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,300
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 436 (38 second mortgage, 60 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 259
- Educational services (24%)
- Construction (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Health care (3%)
- Food (3%)
- Educational services (35%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (31.3%)
- Irish (17.1%)
- United States or American (11.7%)
- English (8.7%)
- Italian (5.0%)
- Scottish (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (18%)
- Japan (16%)
- India (16%)
- Ukraine (11%)
- Germany (8%)
- Other Eastern Europe (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,197 (65%)
- Carpooled: 131 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 437 (24%)
- Other means: 21 (1%)
- Worked at home: 56 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (44%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Union township, Ohio:
- 1,051 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 92 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 10 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
94.4% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 1% speak English not well).
3.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,143- In family households: 2,667 (699 male householders, 180 female householders)
743 spouses, 900 children (827 natural, 17 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 23 other relatives, 61 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 476 (182 male householders (144 living alone)), 203 female householders (178 living alone)), 91 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,177 (127 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 398 2-persons, 203 3-persons, 177 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 322 1-person, 48 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 7 4-persons, 6 5-persons,
596 married couples with children.
154 single-parent households (30 men, 124 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.4% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,182
| Here: | 93.3% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |