Ripley township, Rush County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Ripley township: | 0.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Ripley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 92% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1738
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 110
- South: 256
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 694
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 42
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 18
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 68
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,700
Housing units in Ripley township with a mortgage: 299 (24 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 151
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ripley township:
- German (28.4%)
- Irish (17.5%)
- English (15.3%)
- United States or American (15.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Swiss (2.3%)
- Italian (2.2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 888 (84%)
- Carpooled: 87 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 17 (2%)
- Worked at home: 64 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (2%)
99.1% of residents of Ripley township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,141- In family households: 1,919 (536 male householders, 81 female householders)
568 spouses, 639 children (599 natural, 15 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 6 other relatives, 53 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 222 (93 male householders (87 living alone)), 103 female householders (90 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 246 2-persons, 121 3-persons, 160 4-persons, 71 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 177 1-person, 15 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
445 married couples with children.
70 single-parent households (24 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |