Thorn township, Perry County, Ohio (OH) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (81% naturalized citizens)
| Thorn township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.0% |
64% of Thorn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 95% lived in Ohio.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3016
- Northeast: 95
- Midwest: 68
- South: 289
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $68,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
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
6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,246
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 21
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 313
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,500
Housing units in Thorn township with a mortgage: 547 (85 second mortgage, 86 home equity loan, 10 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 216
- Construction (29%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (9%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thorn township:
- German (38.3%)
- United States or American (20.6%)
- English (8.8%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- Italian (4.3%)
- Dutch (3.0%)
- Welsh (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (62%)
- United Kingdom (35%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,463 (88%)
- Carpooled: 134 (8%)
- Walked: 21 (1%)
- Other means: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 35 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
97.3% of residents of Thorn township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,527- In family households: 3,112 (908 male householders, 137 female householders)
902 spouses, 1,014 children (868 natural, 2 adopted, 144 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 40 other relatives, 71 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 415 (213 male householders (160 living alone)), 120 female householders (111 living alone)), 82 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 489 2-persons, 202 3-persons, 232 4-persons, 110 5-persons, 12 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 271 1-person, 50 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
737 married couples with children.
156 single-parent households (65 men, 91 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Ohio: | 14.2% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Ohio: | 10.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Ohio: | 23.4% |