Franklin township, Ripley County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (68% naturalized citizens)
| Franklin township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
59% of Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1911
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 730
- South: 638
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
64 people in nursing homes
7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 945
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 35
- 3 or 4: 17
- 5 to 9: 17
- 10 to 19: 24
- 20 to 49: 41
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 260
Median worth of mobile homes: $39,400
Housing units in Franklin township with a mortgage: 371 (15 second mortgage, 45 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 159
- Construction (14%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Franklin township:
- German (41.9%)
- United States or American (22.5%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- English (7.3%)
- French (except Basque) (3.3%)
- Italian (1.8%)
- European (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Thailand (37%)
- United Kingdom (32%)
- Mexico (32%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,135 (77%)
- Carpooled: 200 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 29 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 94 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (34%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
64 people in nursing homes
7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.8% of residents of Franklin township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 6% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,292- In family households: 2,940 (767 male householders, 150 female householders)
761 spouses, 1,069 children (993 natural, 27 adopted, 49 stepchildren), 86 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 48 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 352 (106 male householders (74 living alone)), 196 female householders (181 living alone)), 50 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 72 (65 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 375 2-persons, 200 3-persons, 197 4-persons, 117 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 255 1-person, 45 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
671 married couples with children.
147 single-parent households (43 men, 104 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 54
| Here: | 14.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 41
| Here: | 29.1% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 15.4% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |