Blue River township, Henry County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Blue River township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Blue River township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1081
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 39
- South: 121
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 432
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 26
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Blue River township with a mortgage: 165 (24 second mortgage, 21 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 93
- Transportation equipment (25%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (19%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Fire fighting and prevention workers including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blue River township:
- United States or American (35.7%)
- German (28.7%)
- English (12.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.9%)
- Irish (4.3%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Jamaica (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 436 (90%)
- Carpooled: 21 (4%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 23 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (9%)
- Utility gas (1%)
99.4% of residents of Blue River township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,264- In family households: 1,178 (335 male householders, 33 female householders)
344 spouses, 410 children (347 natural, 6 adopted, 57 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 12 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 86 (29 male householders (16 living alone)), 42 female householders (36 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 142 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 77 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 52 1-person, 19 2-persons,
245 married couples with children.
43 single-parent households (8 men, 35 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 8.6% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 16.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |