Pleasant township, LaPorte County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (15% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
59% of Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2243
- Northeast: 94
- Midwest: 477
- South: 195
- West: 37
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
15 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 990
- One, attached: 75
- Two: 67
- 3 or 4: 17
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 82
- 20 to 49: 20
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 31
Median worth of mobile homes: $71,400
Housing units in Pleasant township with a mortgage: 642 (81 second mortgage, 63 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 237
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Construction (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant township:
- United States or American (23.0%)
- German (17.4%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- Polish (8.9%)
- English (8.2%)
- Dutch (4.7%)
- European (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (79%)
- Canada (16%)
- Germany (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,354 (90%)
- Carpooled: 44 (3%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Railroad: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 34 (2%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 30 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (89%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
15 people in nursing homes
94.3% of residents of Pleasant township speak English at home.
4.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 30% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,129- In family households: 2,663 (691 male householders, 206 female householders)
670 spouses, 939 children (825 natural, 37 adopted, 77 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 34 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 46 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 466 (136 male householders (99 living alone)), 230 female householders (196 living alone)), 100 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 18 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 435 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 190 4-persons, 92 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 295 1-person, 58 2-persons, 6 4-persons, 7 5-persons,
616 married couples with children.
164 single-parent households (33 men, 131 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 42
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 7.6% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |