Rush Creek township, Fairfield County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Rush Creek township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
66% of Rush Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2894
- Northeast: 48
- Midwest: 154
- South: 331
- West: 46
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,298
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 20
- 5 to 9: 26
- 10 to 19: 12
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 48
Median worth of mobile homes: $72,500
Housing units in Rush Creek township with a mortgage: 586 (63 second mortgage, 105 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 209
- Construction (14%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Construction laborers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rush Creek township:
- German (36.9%)
- United States or American (18.5%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- English (8.7%)
- Scottish (5.4%)
- British (2.3%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (38%)
- United Kingdom (31%)
- Austria (31%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,544 (89%)
- Carpooled: 93 (5%)
- Walked: 35 (2%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 58 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (39%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.0% of residents of Rush Creek township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 22% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,515- In family households: 3,151 (898 male householders, 122 female householders)
891 spouses, 1,160 children (1,004 natural, 33 adopted, 123 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 13 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 364 (136 male householders (118 living alone)), 180 female householders (160 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 463 2-persons, 232 3-persons, 157 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 57 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 278 1-person, 26 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
720 married couples with children.
186 single-parent households (74 men, 112 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 50
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 23
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |