Eel River township, Hendricks County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (88% naturalized citizens)
Eel River township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
73% of Eel River township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1481
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 56
- South: 118
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $156,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 612
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 5
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Eel River township with a mortgage: 327 (38 second mortgage, 74 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 127
- Construction (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Air transportation (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Eel River township:
- English (27.8%)
- German (26.5%)
- United States or American (16.3%)
- Irish (6.8%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
- Polish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (88%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 718 (83%)
- Carpooled: 84 (10%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 48 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Wood (1%)
97.1% of residents of Eel River township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,692- In family households: 1,522 (411 male householders, 68 female householders)
409 spouses, 570 children (554 natural, 2 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 1 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 170 (75 male householders (61 living alone)), 72 female householders (62 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 187 2-persons, 107 3-persons, 124 4-persons, 51 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 123 1-person, 24 2-persons,
345 married couples with children.
74 single-parent households (25 men, 49 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
Here: | 6.5% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.1% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 50
Here: | 79.4% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |