Pleasant township, Allen County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2497
- Northeast: 43
- Midwest: 532
- South: 167
- West: 78
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $14,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,193
- Two: 8
- Mobile homes: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,000
Housing units in Pleasant township with a mortgage: 732 (78 second mortgage, 96 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 215
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant township:
- German (42.5%)
- United States or American (12.6%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- English (6.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.4%)
- Dutch (2.5%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ecuador (47%)
- Canada (18%)
- Brazil (13%)
- Other Eastern Europe (11%)
- Honduras (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,557 (86%)
- Carpooled: 144 (8%)
- Walked: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 104 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (3%)
95.8% of residents of Pleasant township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 39% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,361- In family households: 3,052 (805 male householders, 153 female householders)
852 spouses, 1,078 children (984 natural, 41 adopted, 53 stepchildren), 52 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 26 other relatives, 69 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 309 (129 male householders (83 living alone)), 98 female householders (93 living alone)), 82 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 371 2-persons, 218 3-persons, 226 4-persons, 73 5-persons, 70 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 176 1-person, 30 2-persons, 21 5-persons,
771 married couples with children.
116 single-parent households (24 men, 92 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 165
| Here: | 32.9% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 79
| Here: | 42.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 26.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |