Olive township, St. Joseph County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (85% naturalized citizens)
| Olive township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Olive township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2905
- Northeast: 108
- Midwest: 561
- South: 201
- West: 53
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
275 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,248
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 32
- 3 or 4: 37
- 5 to 9: 106
- 10 to 19: 2
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 39
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,700
Housing units in Olive township with a mortgage: 630 (70 second mortgage, 129 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 272
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Olive township:
- German (25.8%)
- Polish (19.6%)
- English (9.7%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- United States or American (6.2%)
- Belgian (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Argentina (33%)
- Hungary (15%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (11%)
- Canada (11%)
- Philippines (9%)
- Vietnam (9%)
- Greece (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,638 (88%)
- Carpooled: 93 (5%)
- Walked: 33 (2%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 72 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
275 people in nursing homes
96.1% of residents of Olive township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (51% speak English very well, 44% speak English well, 2% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,631- In family households: 3,154 (825 male householders, 170 female householders)
839 spouses, 1,186 children (1,088 natural, 26 adopted, 72 stepchildren), 42 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 29 other relatives, 46 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 477 (139 male householders (110 living alone)), 286 female householders (274 living alone)), 52 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 271 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 433 2-persons, 208 3-persons, 213 4-persons, 102 5-persons, 31 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 384 1-person, 37 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 1 5-persons,
793 married couples with children.
133 single-parent households (42 men, 91 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |