Pigeon township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (34% naturalized citizens)
| Pigeon township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
51% of Pigeon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 23616
- Northeast: 393
- Midwest: 2795
- South: 5971
- West: 724
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $39,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.2%
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
People in group quarters in Pigeon township, Indiana:
- 671 people in nursing homes
- 345 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 286 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 198 people in halfway houses
- 30 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 26 people in other group homes
- 21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 20 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 18 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 18 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 13 people in religious group quarters
- 9 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 5 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,536
- One, attached: 199
- Two: 1,669
- 3 or 4: 1,567
- 5 to 9: 1,161
- 10 to 19: 326
- 20 to 49: 471
- 50 or more: 758
- Mobile homes: 106
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Pigeon township with a mortgage: 4,030 (473 second mortgage, 375 home equity loan, 26 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,553
- Construction (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pigeon township:
- German (22.2%)
- United States or American (14.4%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- English (6.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
- Italian (1.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (19%)
- Germany (16%)
- Korea (7%)
- Russia (5%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Netherlands (5%)
- Other Western Asia (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,765 (71%)
- Carpooled: 2,313 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 477 (3%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 18 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 15 (0%)
- Taxi: 72 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 27 (0%)
- Bicycle: 88 (1%)
- Walked: 691 (5%)
- Other means: 117 (1%)
- Worked at home: 193 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Pigeon township, Indiana:
- 671 people in nursing homes
- 345 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 286 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 198 people in halfway houses
- 30 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 26 people in other group homes
- 21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 20 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 18 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 18 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 13 people in religious group quarters
- 9 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 5 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
96.6% of residents of Pigeon township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (54% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (35% speak English well, 65% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 32,329- In family households: 24,538 (4,855 male householders, 2,844 female householders)
4,741 spouses, 9,136 children (8,145 natural, 286 adopted, 705 stepchildren), 848 grandchildren, 299 brothers or sisters, 262 parents, 530 other relatives, 1,023 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,791 (3,069 male householders (2,493 living alone)), 3,535 female householders (3,129 living alone)), 1,187 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,649 (1,214 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,250 2-persons, 1,979 3-persons, 1,294 4-persons, 703 5-persons, 297 6-persons, 176 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 5,622 1-person, 821 2-persons, 99 3-persons, 39 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 7 6-persons,
3,513 married couples with children.
3,244 single-parent households (565 men, 2,679 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 293
| Here: | 7.9% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 97
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 166
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |