Knight township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Knight township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
52% of Knight township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 45184
- Northeast: 1516
- Midwest: 7540
- South: 10288
- West: 1215
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
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 Knight township, Indiana:
- 1,535 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 514 people in nursing homes
- 291 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 68 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 61 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 43 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 24 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 16 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 13 people in religious group quarters
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 19,872
- One, attached: 663
- Two: 1,035
- 3 or 4: 1,571
- 5 to 9: 2,632
- 10 to 19: 1,924
- 20 to 49: 1,219
- 50 or more: 1,647
- Mobile homes: 601
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,900
Housing units in Knight township with a mortgage: 11,223 (1,569 second mortgage, 1,332 home equity loan, 28 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,335
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Knight township:
- German (30.3%)
- United States or American (15.5%)
- English (11.0%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- Italian (1.8%)
- Scottish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (9%)
- Mexico (8%)
- India (8%)
- Korea (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Japan (6%)
- Russia (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 28,720 (85%)
- Carpooled: 2,847 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 281 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 12 (0%)
- Railroad: 19 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 14 (0%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 26 (0%)
- Walked: 945 (3%)
- Other means: 132 (0%)
- Worked at home: 666 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (68%)
- Electricity (31%)
People in group quarters in Knight township, Indiana:
- 1,535 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 514 people in nursing homes
- 291 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 68 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 61 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 43 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 24 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 16 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 13 people in religious group quarters
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
95.8% of residents of Knight township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (47% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 64,723- In family households: 50,569 (12,620 male householders, 4,803 female householders)
12,706 spouses, 17,607 children (16,089 natural, 427 adopted, 1,091 stepchildren), 732 grandchildren, 306 brothers or sisters, 337 parents, 386 other relatives, 1,072 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 14,154 (4,699 male householders (3,651 living alone)), 7,115 female householders (6,261 living alone)), 2,340 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,570 (838 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 8,437 2-persons, 4,328 3-persons, 2,983 4-persons, 1,207 5-persons, 338 6-persons, 130 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 9,912 1-person, 1,624 2-persons, 180 3-persons, 71 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
9,055 married couples with children.
4,781 single-parent households (806 men, 3,975 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,246
| Here: | 19.9% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 455
| Here: | 15.0% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2,314
| Here: | 46.1% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |