Lima township, LaGrange County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (5% naturalized citizens)
| Lima township: | 7.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
50% of Lima township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 36% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1031
- Northeast: 64
- Midwest: 778
- South: 181
- West: 24
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $132,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 816
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 109
Median worth of mobile homes: $67,100
Housing units in Lima township with a mortgage: 354 (24 second mortgage, 48 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 198
- Transportation equipment (21%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Transportation equipment (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Health care (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lima township:
- German (25.3%)
- United States or American (19.0%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- English (6.6%)
- Italian (3.5%)
- Polish (2.6%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (70%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (26%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 860 (72%)
- Carpooled: 226 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 11 (1%)
- Walked: 53 (4%)
- Other means: 29 (2%)
- Worked at home: 9 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
88.6% of residents of Lima township speak English at home.
6.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (6% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 52% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 9% don't speak English at all).
2.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (9% speak English not well, 91% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,250- In family households: 2,026 (536 male householders, 103 female householders)
551 spouses, 677 children (561 natural, 40 adopted, 76 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 29 parents, 24 other relatives, 60 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 224 (116 male householders (106 living alone)), 87 female householders (71 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 251 2-persons, 152 3-persons, 135 4-persons, 74 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 177 1-person, 26 2-persons,
478 married couples with children.
108 single-parent households (30 men, 78 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 13.2% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 16.4% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 3.5% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |