Licking township, Blackford County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Licking township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Licking township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7344
- Northeast: 139
- Midwest: 561
- South: 506
- West: 127
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $64,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
111 people in nursing homes
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,034
- One, attached: 23
- Two: 134
- 3 or 4: 184
- 5 to 9: 46
- 10 to 19: 42
- 20 to 49: 27
- 50 or more: 13
- Mobile homes: 364
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,800
Housing units in Licking township with a mortgage: 1,458 (142 second mortgage, 123 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 799
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Paper (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Licking township:
- United States or American (27.2%)
- German (20.7%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- English (11.5%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (67%)
- Canada (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,457 (85%)
- Carpooled: 363 (9%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 63 (2%)
- Other means: 35 (1%)
- Worked at home: 164 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Electricity (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
111 people in nursing homes
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.7% of residents of Licking township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (88% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,586- In family households: 7,326 (2,035 male householders, 428 female householders)
2,110 spouses, 2,538 children (2,154 natural, 99 adopted, 285 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 15 other relatives, 98 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,260 (481 male householders (399 living alone)), 661 female householders (630 living alone)), 118 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 121 (115 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,142 2-persons, 602 3-persons, 470 4-persons, 168 5-persons, 68 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,029 1-person, 113 2-persons,
1,414 married couples with children.
538 single-parent households (121 men, 417 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 69
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 42
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 7.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |