Grass township, Spencer County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Grass township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Grass township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1086
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 96
- South: 237
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $67,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 466
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 23
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 64
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,000
Housing units in Grass township with a mortgage: 162 (16 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 126
- Metal and metal products (20%)
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grass township:
- German (32.7%)
- United States or American (21.5%)
- English (9.0%)
- French (except Basque) (4.4%)
- Irish (3.6%)
- French Canadian (2.2%)
- Scottish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 619 (83%)
- Carpooled: 88 (12%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 36 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (44%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.6% of residents of Grass township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,456- In family households: 1,344 (373 male householders, 42 female householders)
374 spouses, 484 children (429 natural, 29 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 8 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 112 (23 male householders (20 living alone)), 81 female householders (79 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 174 2-persons, 86 3-persons, 87 4-persons, 33 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 99 1-person, 5 2-persons,
281 married couples with children.
60 single-parent households (21 men, 39 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 7.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |