Ridgefield township, Huron County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (64% naturalized citizens)
Ridgefield township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 3.0% |
67% of Ridgefield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2053
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 84
- South: 116
- West: 54
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $67,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
5 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 712
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 48
- 3 or 4: 106
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 7
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Ridgefield township with a mortgage: 374 (56 second mortgage, 71 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 163
- Construction (17%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ridgefield township:
- German (51.8%)
- United States or American (13.4%)
- English (8.3%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Italian (5.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- Swiss (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (36%)
- Canada (23%)
- Philippines (18%)
- India (9%)
- Other Eastern Africa (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,026 (86%)
- Carpooled: 93 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 33 (3%)
- Worked at home: 24 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (2%)
5 people in religious group quarters
98.0% of residents of Ridgefield township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,360- In family households: 2,107 (531 male householders, 124 female householders)
552 spouses, 806 children (732 natural, 13 adopted, 61 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 2 other relatives, 57 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 253 (97 male householders (75 living alone)), 115 female householders (103 living alone)), 41 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 242 2-persons, 166 3-persons, 147 4-persons, 75 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 178 1-person, 32 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
539 married couples with children.
117 single-parent households (34 men, 83 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 90
Here: | 28.2% |
Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
Here: | 3.4% |
Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 13.8% |
Ohio: | 23.4% |