Spencer township, DeKalb County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Spencer township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Spencer 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, 92% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 773
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 153
- South: 40
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 334
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,600
Housing units in Spencer township with a mortgage: 164 (26 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 32
- Construction (18%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Bus drivers (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (7%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spencer township:
- German (51.0%)
- French (except Basque) (12.8%)
- English (12.1%)
- United States or American (8.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.3%)
- French Canadian (2.7%)
- Italian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 387 (81%)
- Carpooled: 53 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 16 (3%)
- Worked at home: 12 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (34%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (7%)
96.5% of residents of Spencer township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 990- In family households: 920 (263 male householders, 9 female householders)
249 spouses, 360 children (325 natural, 16 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 9 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 70 (19 male householders (19 living alone)), 46 female householders (42 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 110 2-persons, 56 3-persons, 58 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 61 1-person, 4 2-persons,
269 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (9 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 55
Here: | 42.3% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
Here: | 19.4% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 16.7% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |