Ripley township, Montgomery County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Ripley township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
74% of Ripley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1301
- Northeast: 40
- Midwest: 170
- South: 62
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $133,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 516
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 72
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,100
Housing units in Ripley township with a mortgage: 174 (17 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 78
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Construction (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ripley township:
- German (33.8%)
- United States or American (14.5%)
- English (12.8%)
- Irish (6.6%)
- Dutch (3.8%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Scottish (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (56%)
- India (22%)
- Philippines (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 702 (84%)
- Carpooled: 89 (11%)
- Walked: 16 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 26 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (44%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Wood (8%)
- Electricity (3%)
97.4% of residents of Ripley township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (25% speak English very well, 75% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,592- In family households: 1,450 (403 male householders, 59 female householders)
417 spouses, 521 children (471 natural, 16 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 11 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 142 (56 male householders (49 living alone)), 59 female householders (50 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 21 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 202 2-persons, 99 3-persons, 99 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 99 1-person, 11 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 3 6-persons,
209 married couples with children.
66 single-parent households (23 men, 43 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |