Brownstown township, Jackson County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Brownstown township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Brownstown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4351
- Northeast: 145
- Midwest: 318
- South: 326
- West: 75
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
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
People in group quarters in Brownstown township, Indiana:
- 93 people in nursing homes
- 39 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 10 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,522
- One, attached: 19
- Two: 41
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 56
- 10 to 19: 11
- 20 to 49: 38
- 50 or more: 7
- Mobile homes: 402
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,500
Housing units in Brownstown township with a mortgage: 631 (67 second mortgage, 101 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 440
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Brownstown township:
- United States or American (38.0%)
- German (28.9%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- English (8.8%)
- Scottish (1.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (86%)
- Canada (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,153 (84%)
- Carpooled: 222 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 30 (1%)
- Walked: 46 (2%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 101 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Brownstown township, Indiana:
- 93 people in nursing homes
- 39 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 10 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
97.4% of residents of Brownstown township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 22% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,133- In family households: 4,573 (1,206 male householders, 301 female householders)
1,282 spouses, 1,614 children (1,442 natural, 32 adopted, 140 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 37 parents, 21 other relatives, 63 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 560 (149 male householders (107 living alone)), 336 female householders (325 living alone)), 75 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 142 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 668 2-persons, 355 3-persons, 327 4-persons, 114 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 432 1-person, 40 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 8 5-persons,
977 married couples with children.
310 single-parent households (58 men, 252 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 98
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 28
| Here: | 8.6% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 8.4% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |