Otsego township, Steuben County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Otsego township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
53% of Otsego township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1850
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 570
- South: 131
- West: 44
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,249
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 160
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,800
Housing units in Otsego township with a mortgage: 377 (38 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 264
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Construction (12%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Otsego township:
- German (44.4%)
- United States or American (13.2%)
- English (12.5%)
- Irish (5.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.7%)
- Dutch (2.5%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (67%)
- Mexico (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,216 (84%)
- Carpooled: 147 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 24 (2%)
- Worked at home: 62 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
94.9% of residents of Otsego township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
4.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (46% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,638- In family households: 2,329 (649 male householders, 113 female householders)
608 spouses, 749 children (629 natural, 19 adopted, 101 stepchildren), 84 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 21 other relatives, 63 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 309 (145 male householders (103 living alone)), 121 female householders (121 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 353 2-persons, 140 3-persons, 146 4-persons, 69 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 31 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 224 1-person, 34 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 1 5-persons,
437 married couples with children.
118 single-parent households (46 men, 72 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 68
| Here: | 22.7% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 4.0% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
| Here: | 44.4% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |