Galena township, LaPorte County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Galena township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
69% of Galena township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1190
- Northeast: 38
- Midwest: 358
- South: 64
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 813
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Galena township with a mortgage: 334 (34 second mortgage, 41 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 122
- Construction (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Rail transportation (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Bus drivers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Galena township:
- German (27.7%)
- United States or American (13.2%)
- Polish (11.1%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- English (9.2%)
- Swedish (5.2%)
- French (except Basque) (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (64%)
- Hungary (36%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 800 (84%)
- Carpooled: 66 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (1%)
- Walked: 24 (3%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 41 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (2%)
94.8% of residents of Galena township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 58% speak English well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,712- In family households: 1,538 (464 male householders, 58 female householders)
457 spouses, 479 children (454 natural, 0 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 39 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 174 (39 male householders (26 living alone)), 123 female householders (123 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 225 2-persons, 147 3-persons, 102 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 149 1-person, 13 2-persons,
336 married couples with children.
46 single-parent households (25 men, 21 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
| Here: | 6.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 13.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |