Elkhart township, Elkhart County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 14 (16% naturalized citizens)
| Elkhart township: | 13.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
48% of Elkhart township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 19701
- Northeast: 1080
- Midwest: 4878
- South: 2310
- West: 834
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Elkhart township, Indiana:
- 547 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 470 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 369 people in nursing homes
- 42 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 37 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 18 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 17 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 8 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 7 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,836
- One, attached: 412
- Two: 839
- 3 or 4: 874
- 5 to 9: 860
- 10 to 19: 66
- 20 to 49: 135
- 50 or more: 430
- Mobile homes: 1,374
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,500
Housing units in Elkhart township with a mortgage: 4,495 (473 second mortgage, 495 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,992
- Transportation equipment (21%)
- Construction (7%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cashiers (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Child care workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elkhart township:
- German (26.6%)
- United States or American (16.0%)
- Swiss (5.4%)
- English (5.2%)
- Irish (4.6%)
- Dutch (2.8%)
- Polish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (78%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Canada (3%)
- Japan (2%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (1%)
- Korea (1%)
- Germany (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,063 (77%)
- Carpooled: 2,495 (15%)
- Taxi: 22 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 25 (0%)
- Bicycle: 155 (1%)
- Walked: 599 (4%)
- Other means: 164 (1%)
- Worked at home: 370 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Elkhart township, Indiana:
- 547 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 470 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 369 people in nursing homes
- 42 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 37 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 18 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 17 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 8 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 7 people in other group homes
80.4% of residents of Elkhart township speak English at home.
16.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 30% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (37% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 32,415- In family households: 27,935 (6,944 male householders, 1,596 female householders)
6,918 spouses, 9,641 children (8,933 natural, 158 adopted, 550 stepchildren), 428 grandchildren, 594 brothers or sisters, 198 parents, 744 other relatives, 872 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,480 (1,536 male householders (1,180 living alone)), 2,119 female householders (1,928 living alone)), 825 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,551 (863 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,566 2-persons, 1,819 3-persons, 1,616 4-persons, 911 5-persons, 401 6-persons, 227 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,108 1-person, 403 2-persons, 53 3-persons, 45 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 24 6-persons,
6,095 married couples with children.
1,927 single-parent households (538 men, 1,389 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 295
| Here: | 7.4% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 208
| Here: | 11.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 761
| Here: | 63.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |