Columbia township, Whitley County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (34% naturalized citizens)
| Columbia township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
53% of Columbia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7641
- Northeast: 146
- Midwest: 969
- South: 662
- West: 117
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $73,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Columbia township, Indiana:
- 122 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 89 people in nursing homes
- 75 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 75 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 24 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 19 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,868
- One, attached: 87
- Two: 212
- 3 or 4: 104
- 5 to 9: 207
- 10 to 19: 109
- 20 to 49: 144
- 50 or more: 40
- Mobile homes: 339
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,900
Housing units in Columbia township with a mortgage: 1,596 (226 second mortgage, 174 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 752
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Columbia township:
- German (43.9%)
- United States or American (18.5%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- English (6.4%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
- Polish (1.8%)
- European (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (47%)
- Other Northern Europe (11%)
- Germany (10%)
- Canada (9%)
- Turkey (8%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- France (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,394 (87%)
- Carpooled: 419 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Railroad: 6 (0%)
- Bicycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 36 (1%)
- Other means: 44 (1%)
- Worked at home: 111 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Columbia township, Indiana:
- 122 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 89 people in nursing homes
- 75 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 75 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 24 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 19 people in other nonhousehold living situations
97.7% of residents of Columbia township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,321- In family households: 7,851 (2,077 male householders, 538 female householders)
2,052 spouses, 2,856 children (2,685 natural, 57 adopted, 114 stepchildren), 48 grandchildren, 43 brothers or sisters, 44 parents, 59 other relatives, 134 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,470 (521 male householders (422 living alone)), 752 female householders (709 living alone)), 197 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 328 (297 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,205 2-persons, 561 3-persons, 555 4-persons, 225 5-persons, 49 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,131 1-person, 106 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
1,657 married couples with children.
588 single-parent households (141 men, 447 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 99
| Here: | 9.2% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 75
| Here: | 28.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |