Needham township, Johnson County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Needham township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
51% of Needham township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3238
- Northeast: 121
- Midwest: 435
- South: 598
- West: 112
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $49,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,221
- One, attached: 131
- Two: 30
- 3 or 4: 148
- 5 to 9: 107
- 10 to 19: 59
- 50 or more: 11
- Mobile homes: 80
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Needham township with a mortgage: 722 (47 second mortgage, 112 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 362
- Construction (12%)
- Health care (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Needham township:
- German (30.1%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- United States or American (10.9%)
- English (10.5%)
- Scottish (4.0%)
- Dutch (3.3%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (41%)
- Korea (38%)
- Philippines (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,946 (89%)
- Carpooled: 201 (9%)
- Walked: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 44 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
13 people in homes for the mentally retarded
99.3% of residents of Needham township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,542- In family households: 4,079 (999 male householders, 334 female householders)
1,122 spouses, 1,560 children (1,412 natural, 41 adopted, 107 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 25 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 463 (179 male householders (130 living alone)), 167 female householders (158 living alone)), 117 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 565 2-persons, 305 3-persons, 306 4-persons, 112 5-persons, 39 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 288 1-person, 26 2-persons, 17 3-persons, 15 4-persons,
988 married couples with children.
296 single-parent households (55 men, 241 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 55
| Here: | 9.7% |
| 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: 53
| Here: | 32.5% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |