North Bend township, Starke County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (70% naturalized citizens)
North Bend township: | 3.6% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
62% of North Bend township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 767
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 365
- South: 108
- West: 52
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 667
- Two: 12
- Mobile homes: 45
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,700
Housing units in North Bend township with a mortgage: 149 (19 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 127
- Construction (19%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (18%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in North Bend township:
- German (25.6%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- United States or American (11.9%)
- Polish (10.0%)
- English (6.6%)
- Swedish (5.1%)
- Italian (5.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (43%)
- Romania (15%)
- Yugoslavia (15%)
- Japan (15%)
- Germany (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 378 (85%)
- Carpooled: 53 (12%)
- Worked at home: 13 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (5%)
95.4% of residents of North Bend township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,353- In family households: 1,139 (291 male householders, 85 female householders)
299 spouses, 360 children (288 natural, 5 adopted, 67 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 26 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 18 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 214 (92 male householders (87 living alone)), 94 female householders (75 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 190 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 69 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 162 1-person, 24 2-persons,
179 married couples with children.
81 single-parent households (33 men, 48 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 6
Here: | 13.6% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |