Goshen township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (64% naturalized citizens)
Goshen township: | 0.8% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
61% of Goshen township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4828
- Northeast: 152
- Midwest: 164
- South: 320
- West: 53
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
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
169 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,611
- One, attached: 30
- Two: 46
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 460
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,800
Housing units in Goshen township with a mortgage: 792 (104 second mortgage, 115 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 433
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Goshen township:
- German (34.1%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- English (11.3%)
- United States or American (9.7%)
- Italian (8.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.3%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (32%)
- Germany (30%)
- Italy (20%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- Greece (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,157 (90%)
- Carpooled: 171 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (0%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 46 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (43%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
169 people in nursing homes
97.2% of residents of Goshen township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 6% speak English not well, 26% don't speak English at all).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,402- In family households: 4,794 (1,280 male householders, 277 female householders)
1,262 spouses, 1,698 children (1,539 natural, 61 adopted, 98 stepchildren), 53 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 39 parents, 26 other relatives, 134 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 608 (237 male householders (188 living alone)), 262 female householders (224 living alone)), 109 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 177 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 643 2-persons, 385 3-persons, 334 4-persons, 151 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 412 1-person, 74 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
929 married couples with children.
216 single-parent households (70 men, 146 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 53
Here: | 7.6% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
Here: | 7.0% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
Here: | 13.4% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |