Gibson township, Washington County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Gibson township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
71% of Gibson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 16% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 814
- Northeast: 37
- Midwest: 83
- South: 179
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $25,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 335
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 193
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,900
Housing units in Gibson township with a mortgage: 107 (13 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 37
- Construction (19%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Gibson township:
- United States or American (39.1%)
- German (22.7%)
- English (15.1%)
- Irish (3.1%)
- Scottish (3.0%)
- Hungarian (2.0%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 452 (86%)
- Carpooled: 25 (5%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 38 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (37%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
97.7% of residents of Gibson township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,135- In family households: 1,027 (272 male householders, 37 female householders)
265 spouses, 390 children (335 natural, 2 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 6 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 108 (59 male householders (50 living alone)), 38 female householders (35 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 148 2-persons, 55 3-persons, 48 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 85 1-person, 12 2-persons,
254 married couples with children.
67 single-parent households (24 men, 43 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
Here: | 10.2% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
Here: | 13.4% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |