Columbia township, Dubois County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Columbia township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
90% of Columbia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 85% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 114
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 15
- South: 0
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 69
- One, attached: 2
Housing units in Columbia township with a mortgage: 8 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 6
- Construction (15%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Truck transportation (14%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (26%)
- Computer and electronic products (16%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Construction (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (17%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Columbia township:
- German (50.9%)
- Norwegian (17.6%)
- United States or American (13.0%)
- English (7.4%)
- Danish (5.6%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Netherlands (33%)
- Ukraine (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 34 (60%)
- Carpooled: 4 (7%)
- Walked: 2 (4%)
- Worked at home: 17 (30%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (64%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (3%)
98.5% of residents of Columbia township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 137- In family households: 114 (39 male householders, 3 female householders)
43 spouses, 29 children (29 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 23 (10 male householders (6 living alone)), 10 female householders (10 living alone)), 3 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 29 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 16 1-person, 4 2-persons,
212 married couples with children.
25 single-parent households (4 men, 21 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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% |