Spencer township, Harrison County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Spencer township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
77% of Spencer township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1187
- Northeast: 58
- Midwest: 59
- South: 427
- West: 45
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 550
- Mobile homes: 146
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 8
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Spencer township with a mortgage: 176 (15 second mortgage, 37 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 89
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Construction (6%)
- Rail transportation (6%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Woodworkers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Entertainers and performers, sports, and related workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spencer township:
- German (30.4%)
- United States or American (25.2%)
- Irish (17.1%)
- French (except Basque) (5.0%)
- English (2.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
- Polish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 751 (76%)
- Carpooled: 137 (14%)
- Walked: 27 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 74 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (41%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Wood (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Utility gas (2%)
98.1% of residents of Spencer township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,783- In family households: 1,619 (447 male householders, 78 female householders)
455 spouses, 514 children (469 natural, 8 adopted, 37 stepchildren), 46 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 13 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 164 (51 male householders (27 living alone)), 88 female householders (86 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 218 2-persons, 133 3-persons, 81 4-persons, 67 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 113 1-person, 26 2-persons,
328 married couples with children.
77 single-parent households (19 men, 58 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
Here: | 7.7% |
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: 14
Here: | 18.4% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |