Penn township, St. Joseph County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Penn township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Penn 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, 42% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 46320
- Northeast: 1816
- Midwest: 8925
- South: 3656
- West: 1342
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $98,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Penn township, Indiana:
- 666 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 472 people in nursing homes
- 110 people in religious group quarters
- 101 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 38 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 29 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 26 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 18,806
- One, attached: 1,060
- Two: 667
- 3 or 4: 1,347
- 5 to 9: 1,551
- 10 to 19: 1,237
- 20 to 49: 755
- 50 or more: 800
- Mobile homes: 1,181
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,200
Housing units in Penn township with a mortgage: 11,099 (1,559 second mortgage, 1,651 home equity loan, 89 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,951
- Construction (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn township:
- German (26.9%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- United States or American (10.2%)
- Polish (8.8%)
- English (6.8%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Belgian (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (15%)
- Germany (8%)
- Korea (7%)
- Other Eastern Africa (6%)
- Canada (6%)
- Italy (5%)
- India (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 27,086 (84%)
- Carpooled: 3,232 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 184 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 15 (0%)
- Taxi: 17 (0%)
- Bicycle: 53 (0%)
- Walked: 827 (3%)
- Other means: 120 (0%)
- Worked at home: 756 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (89%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Penn township, Indiana:
- 666 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 472 people in nursing homes
- 110 people in religious group quarters
- 101 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 38 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 29 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 26 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in other group homes
94.4% of residents of Penn township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (79% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 62,879- In family households: 51,801 (12,943 male householders, 3,966 female householders)
13,153 spouses, 18,642 children (17,016 natural, 549 adopted, 1,077 stepchildren), 935 grandchildren, 294 brothers or sisters, 296 parents, 539 other relatives, 1,033 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 11,078 (3,963 male householders (3,071 living alone)), 5,209 female householders (4,728 living alone)), 1,906 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,461 (551 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,285 2-persons, 3,971 3-persons, 3,407 4-persons, 1,503 5-persons, 570 6-persons, 173 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 7,799 1-person, 1,115 2-persons, 155 3-persons, 71 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 19 6-persons,
10,791 married couples with children.
4,200 single-parent households (947 men, 3,253 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 993
| Here: | 13.5% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 362
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,014
| Here: | 36.5% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |