Grant township, Benton County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (62% naturalized citizens)
Grant township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Grant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 775
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 97
- South: 173
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 429
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Grant township with a mortgage: 154 (16 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 132
- Construction (17%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Health care (10%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Gasoline stations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grant township:
- United States or American (24.1%)
- German (20.6%)
- Irish (13.4%)
- English (11.3%)
- Polish (4.9%)
- Italian (1.7%)
- Swedish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (92%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 405 (81%)
- Carpooled: 47 (9%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 12 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 26 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
91.7% of residents of Grant township speak English at home.
7.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,088- In family households: 929 (235 male householders, 61 female householders)
246 spouses, 297 children (279 natural, 14 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 38 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 17 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 159 (51 male householders (42 living alone)), 85 female householders (76 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 138 2-persons, 51 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 118 1-person, 16 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
226 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (16 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 4.5% |
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: 2
Here: | 11.1% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |