Penn township, Jay County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Penn township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Penn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 984
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 53
- South: 95
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $71,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
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: 400
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 12
- Mobile homes: 100
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,500
Housing units in Penn township with a mortgage: 119 (15 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 112
- Construction (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (19%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn township:
- German (41.9%)
- United States or American (24.4%)
- English (8.3%)
- Irish (7.0%)
- Swedish (3.6%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 366 (75%)
- Carpooled: 72 (15%)
- Walked: 14 (3%)
- Worked at home: 33 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Wood (1%)
97.4% of residents of Penn township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,180- In family households: 978 (244 male householders, 68 female householders)
263 spouses, 360 children (303 natural, 23 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 202 (81 male householders (49 living alone)), 77 female householders (73 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 157 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 45 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 122 1-person, 30 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
276 married couples with children.
58 single-parent households (19 men, 39 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 10.1% |
| 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: 5
| Here: | 20.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |