Fayette township, Lawrence County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Fayette township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
65% of Fayette township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 16% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2487
- Northeast: 174
- Midwest: 317
- South: 6069
- West: 65
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
209 people in nursing homes
7 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,805
- One, attached: 35
- Two: 126
- 3 or 4: 167
- 5 to 9: 52
- 20 to 49: 9
- Mobile homes: 690
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,200
Housing units in Fayette township with a mortgage: 1,195 (72 second mortgage, 133 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 882
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fayette township:
- United States or American (38.8%)
- Irish (13.9%)
- German (11.4%)
- English (9.5%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- Scottish (1.7%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Jamaica (46%)
- United Kingdom (29%)
- Japan (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,968 (85%)
- Carpooled: 355 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (1%)
- Other means: 52 (1%)
- Worked at home: 50 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Electricity (37%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
209 people in nursing homes
7 people in homes for the mentally ill
98.0% of residents of Fayette township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,947- In family households: 7,858 (2,011 male householders, 598 female householders)
2,101 spouses, 2,619 children (2,279 natural, 95 adopted, 245 stepchildren), 247 grandchildren, 48 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 98 other relatives, 123 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,089 (386 male householders (312 living alone)), 582 female householders (549 living alone)), 121 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 217 (210 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,162 2-persons, 674 3-persons, 473 4-persons, 201 5-persons, 81 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 861 1-person, 95 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
1,434 married couples with children.
516 single-parent households (152 men, 364 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 58
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 2.1% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |