Bethel township, Posey County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Bethel township: | 4.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
68% of Bethel township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2116
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 366
- South: 51
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $48,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 954
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 52
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 63
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,000
Housing units in Bethel township with a mortgage: 411 (35 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 350
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Paper (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (12%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bethel township:
- German (36.8%)
- United States or American (12.4%)
- English (7.8%)
- French (except Basque) (5.9%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- French Canadian (5.1%)
- Polish (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (38%)
- Other Eastern Europe (31%)
- Nigeria (31%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,029 (86%)
- Carpooled: 59 (5%)
- Bicycle: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 48 (4%)
- Worked at home: 55 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (81%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
96.3% of residents of Bethel township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 38% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (29% speak English very well, 71% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,530- In family households: 2,202 (621 male householders, 122 female householders)
618 spouses, 730 children (613 natural, 27 adopted, 90 stepchildren), 58 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 328 (74 male householders (56 living alone)), 189 female householders (170 living alone)), 65 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 67 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 374 2-persons, 142 3-persons, 138 4-persons, 70 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 226 1-person, 18 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
56 married couples with children.
13 single-parent households (3 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |