Keyser township, DeKalb County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (54% naturalized citizens)
| Keyser township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Keyser township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5538
- Northeast: 123
- Midwest: 760
- South: 457
- West: 107
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
63 people in nursing homes
2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,154
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 111
- 3 or 4: 176
- 5 to 9: 72
- 10 to 19: 127
- 20 to 49: 9
- Mobile homes: 246
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,700
Housing units in Keyser township with a mortgage: 1,265 (186 second mortgage, 100 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 477
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Construction (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Keyser township:
- German (38.5%)
- United States or American (24.4%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- English (5.6%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- Polish (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (40%)
- Korea (23%)
- Vietnam (12%)
- Germany (11%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (9%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,821 (80%)
- Carpooled: 513 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 13 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 63 (2%)
- Other means: 10 (0%)
- Worked at home: 81 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Wood (1%)
63 people in nursing homes
2 people in religious group quarters
97.6% of residents of Keyser township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (26% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 23% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (98% speak English very well, 2% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 49% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,048- In family households: 6,070 (1,442 male householders, 450 female householders)
1,554 spouses, 2,256 children (1,930 natural, 77 adopted, 249 stepchildren), 111 grandchildren, 38 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 68 other relatives, 134 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 978 (431 male householders (341 living alone)), 392 female householders (365 living alone)), 155 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 66 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 717 2-persons, 480 3-persons, 383 4-persons, 208 5-persons, 79 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 706 1-person, 99 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
1,370 married couples with children.
444 single-parent households (107 men, 337 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 61
| Here: | 6.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 2.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 56
| Here: | 28.6% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |