Franklin township, Washington County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Franklin township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 37% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1240
- Northeast: 44
- Midwest: 116
- South: 580
- West: 24
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $91,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 444
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 10
- Mobile homes: 232
Median worth of mobile homes: $59,800
Housing units in Franklin township with a mortgage: 172 (14 second mortgage, 49 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 53
- Construction (21%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Paper (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Media and communication equipment workers (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Franklin township:
- German (24.2%)
- United States or American (17.9%)
- Irish (9.9%)
- English (9.3%)
- Scottish (5.0%)
- Dutch (4.7%)
- British (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 735 (80%)
- Carpooled: 121 (13%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 50 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Wood (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Utility gas (3%)
93.1% of residents of Franklin township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
5.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (28% speak English very well, 60% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,020- In family households: 1,921 (470 male householders, 114 female householders)
504 spouses, 766 children (695 natural, 39 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 21 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 99 (53 male householders (53 living alone)), 46 female householders (46 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 224 2-persons, 157 3-persons, 110 4-persons, 54 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 99 1-person,
470 married couples with children.
101 single-parent households (27 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 48
| Here: | 21.4% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 14.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 25.4% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |