Osolo township, Elkhart County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Osolo township: | 4.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Osolo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 16928
- Northeast: 875
- Midwest: 4614
- South: 2053
- West: 810
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $84,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
156 people in nursing homes
4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,735
- One, attached: 322
- Two: 199
- 3 or 4: 669
- 5 to 9: 437
- 10 to 19: 266
- 20 to 49: 428
- 50 or more: 218
- Mobile homes: 1,011
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,600
Housing units in Osolo township with a mortgage: 4,849 (570 second mortgage, 957 home equity loan, 25 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,818
- Transportation equipment (17%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Osolo township:
- German (26.6%)
- United States or American (11.4%)
- English (8.6%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Italian (6.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Polish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (41%)
- Germany (10%)
- India (7%)
- Laos (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- Canada (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 11,742 (84%)
- Carpooled: 1,740 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 19 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 29 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 17 (0%)
- Bicycle: 32 (0%)
- Walked: 66 (0%)
- Other means: 44 (0%)
- Worked at home: 282 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
156 people in nursing homes
4 people in religious group quarters
91.8% of residents of Osolo township speak English at home.
5.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (35% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (48% speak English very well, 52% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 26,417- In family households: 22,461 (5,740 male householders, 1,693 female householders)
5,838 spouses, 7,590 children (6,853 natural, 153 adopted, 584 stepchildren), 454 grandchildren, 145 brothers or sisters, 148 parents, 153 other relatives, 700 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,956 (1,503 male householders (1,161 living alone)), 1,756 female householders (1,571 living alone)), 697 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 160 (156 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,345 2-persons, 1,689 3-persons, 1,467 4-persons, 631 5-persons, 213 6-persons, 88 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,732 1-person, 444 2-persons, 49 3-persons, 34 4-persons,
4,368 married couples with children.
1,655 single-parent households (510 men, 1,145 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 322
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 63
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 73
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |