Liberty township, St. Joseph County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (86% naturalized citizens)
Liberty township: | 1.7% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Liberty township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% 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: 2482
- Northeast: 65
- Midwest: 278
- South: 149
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $87,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,089
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 33
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 48
- 20 to 49: 3
- 50 or more: 5
Housing units in Liberty township with a mortgage: 348 (61 second mortgage, 74 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 321
- Construction (15%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Wood products (3%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Liberty township:
- German (31.0%)
- Polish (16.6%)
- Irish (12.9%)
- United States or American (10.7%)
- English (5.9%)
- Belgian (2.3%)
- Italian (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Nigeria (27%)
- Poland (20%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Other Western Europe (12%)
- Other Northern Europe (8%)
- Germany (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,321 (86%)
- Carpooled: 114 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 25 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 62 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (2%)
98.2% of residents of Liberty township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,043- In family households: 2,713 (690 male householders, 171 female householders)
732 spouses, 990 children (940 natural, 16 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 33 other relatives, 44 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 330 (159 male householders (132 living alone)), 124 female householders (118 living alone)), 47 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 384 2-persons, 222 3-persons, 152 4-persons, 72 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 250 1-person, 25 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 4 5-persons,
577 married couples with children.
201 single-parent households (40 men, 161 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 48
Here: | 12.5% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 2.8% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
Here: | 21.4% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |