Jefferson township, Dubois County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
Jefferson township: | 1.8% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
71% of Jefferson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1315
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 43
- South: 136
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 445
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 14
- 20 to 49: 15
- 50 or more: 3
- Mobile homes: 168
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,800
Housing units in Jefferson township with a mortgage: 193 (0 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 106
- Wood products (18%)
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Wood products (35%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Woodworkers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Woodworkers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jefferson township:
- German (41.8%)
- United States or American (30.9%)
- English (7.2%)
- Irish (3.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- Welsh (1.3%)
- Swedish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Costa Rica (66%)
- El Salvador (34%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 556 (79%)
- Carpooled: 113 (16%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 19 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Wood (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
96.6% of residents of Jefferson township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (24% speak English very well, 51% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,537- In family households: 1,356 (350 male householders, 56 female householders)
348 spouses, 552 children (430 natural, 48 adopted, 74 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 18 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 181 (63 male householders (60 living alone)), 101 female householders (91 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 130 2-persons, 97 3-persons, 78 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 36 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 151 1-person, 13 2-persons,
384 married couples with children.
79 single-parent households (32 men, 47 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
Here: | 10.7% |
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: 9
Here: | 37.5% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |