Franklin township, DeKalb County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Franklin township: | 4.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 933
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 200
- South: 63
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 390
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 13
- 5 to 9: 7
- 20 to 49: 11
- Mobile homes: 32
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,700
Housing units in Franklin township with a mortgage: 200 (13 second mortgage, 49 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 45
- Construction (19%)
- Transportation equipment (18%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (12%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Secondary school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Franklin township:
- German (36.5%)
- United States or American (18.6%)
- English (10.4%)
- Italian (9.4%)
- Irish (4.0%)
- Dutch (3.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (67%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (24%)
- Vietnam (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 562 (90%)
- Carpooled: 42 (7%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (46%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
93.8% of residents of Franklin township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
4.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (31% speak English very well, 60% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (23% speak English very well, 50% speak English well, 27% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,271- In family households: 1,148 (268 male householders, 57 female householders)
283 spouses, 466 children (394 natural, 21 adopted, 51 stepchildren), 37 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 11 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 123 (59 male householders (34 living alone)), 37 female householders (34 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 113 2-persons, 51 3-persons, 89 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 29 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 68 1-person, 25 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
295 married couples with children.
50 single-parent households (17 men, 33 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 2.0% |
| 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: 12
| Here: | 25.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |