Harrison township, Blackford County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Harrison township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Harrison township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2593
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 163
- South: 187
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $29,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 988
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 45
- 3 or 4: 75
- 5 to 9: 19
- 10 to 19: 20
- 20 to 49: 2
- 50 or more: 6
- Mobile homes: 166
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,300
Housing units in Harrison township with a mortgage: 437 (21 second mortgage, 24 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 224
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Paper (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Health care (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Harrison township:
- German (29.8%)
- United States or American (28.3%)
- Irish (17.6%)
- English (9.4%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
- Italian (1.5%)
- French (except Basque) (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (50%)
- Bolivia (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,086 (78%)
- Carpooled: 223 (16%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 33 (2%)
- Worked at home: 44 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (38%)
- Electricity (37%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (5%)
98.9% of residents of Harrison township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 46% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,979- In family households: 2,554 (665 male householders, 150 female householders)
666 spouses, 910 children (842 natural, 8 adopted, 60 stepchildren), 68 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 36 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 425 (164 male householders (128 living alone)), 201 female householders (194 living alone)), 60 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 365 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 162 4-persons, 105 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 322 1-person, 26 2-persons, 17 3-persons,
517 married couples with children.
178 single-parent households (52 men, 126 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 2.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 32
| Here: | 54.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |