Davis township, Starke County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Davis township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Davis township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 973
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 134
- South: 57
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 341
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 18
- Mobile homes: 89
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Davis township with a mortgage: 126 (15 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 64
- Metal and metal products (18%)
- Construction (11%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Furniture and home furnishings, and household appliance stores (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Davis township:
- German (42.6%)
- Irish (12.9%)
- United States or American (8.5%)
- English (5.9%)
- Polish (3.9%)
- Swedish (2.8%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Austria (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 415 (77%)
- Carpooled: 75 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 1 (0%)
- Other means: 12 (2%)
- Worked at home: 33 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
94.5% of residents of Davis township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 38% 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: 1,217- In family households: 1,101 (282 male householders, 57 female householders)
260 spouses, 443 children (392 natural, 14 adopted, 37 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 10 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 116 (46 male householders (40 living alone)), 55 female householders (46 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 127 2-persons, 63 3-persons, 105 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 86 1-person, 15 2-persons,
224 married couples with children.
77 single-parent households (24 men, 53 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 1.9% |
| 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: 3
| Here: | 17.6% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |