Claridon township, Marion County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Claridon township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
60% of Claridon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2184
- Northeast: 49
- Midwest: 53
- South: 255
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
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
37 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 764
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 23
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 225
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Claridon township with a mortgage: 411 (71 second mortgage, 69 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 157
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Claridon township:
- United States or American (32.2%)
- German (24.7%)
- English (8.4%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- European (6.3%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,131 (82%)
- Carpooled: 189 (14%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 19 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
37 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.0% of residents of Claridon township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,550- In family households: 2,309 (612 male householders, 145 female householders)
626 spouses, 816 children (728 natural, 12 adopted, 76 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 17 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 241 (104 male householders (85 living alone)), 107 female householders (98 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 33 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 328 2-persons, 195 3-persons, 143 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 183 1-person, 26 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
458 married couples with children.
130 single-parent households (58 men, 72 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 52
| Here: | 14.8% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |