Clay township, Ottawa County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (66% naturalized citizens)
| Clay township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
70% of Clay township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4486
- Northeast: 83
- Midwest: 159
- South: 274
- West: 22
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
90 people in nursing homes
3 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,709
- One, attached: 36
- Two: 40
- 3 or 4: 47
- 5 to 9: 30
- 10 to 19: 40
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 63
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,800
Housing units in Clay township with a mortgage: 926 (145 second mortgage, 133 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 537
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clay township:
- German (43.4%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- Polish (6.2%)
- English (5.9%)
- United States or American (5.8%)
- French (except Basque) (4.8%)
- Hungarian (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (56%)
- India (16%)
- Netherlands (13%)
- Hungary (6%)
- Germany (5%)
- Canada (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,308 (89%)
- Carpooled: 180 (7%)
- Walked: 61 (2%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 27 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
90 people in nursing homes
3 people in unknown juvenile institutions
93.5% of residents of Clay township speak English at home.
4.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,024- In family households: 4,517 (1,214 male householders, 221 female householders)
1,230 spouses, 1,654 children (1,451 natural, 81 adopted, 122 stepchildren), 89 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 29 parents, 26 other relatives, 50 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 507 (215 male householders (197 living alone)), 264 female householders (252 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 94 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 612 2-persons, 304 3-persons, 295 4-persons, 145 5-persons, 62 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 449 1-person, 30 2-persons,
978 married couples with children.
237 single-parent households (78 men, 159 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 82
| Here: | 13.1% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 43
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |