Pleasant township, Steuben County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
47% of Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% 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: 7934
- Northeast: 420
- Midwest: 3545
- South: 750
- West: 303
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.7%
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 Pleasant township, Indiana:
- 636 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 144 people in nursing homes
- 115 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,964
- One, attached: 115
- Two: 347
- 3 or 4: 158
- 5 to 9: 183
- 10 to 19: 166
- 20 to 49: 113
- 50 or more: 281
- Mobile homes: 1,120
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,100
Housing units in Pleasant township with a mortgage: 1,842 (210 second mortgage, 188 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 740
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Construction (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant township:
- German (34.7%)
- United States or American (15.4%)
- English (12.4%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (33%)
- Germany (13%)
- Canada (12%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Korea (9%)
- Peru (9%)
- Malaysia (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,482 (81%)
- Carpooled: 764 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 22 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 18 (0%)
- Bicycle: 42 (1%)
- Walked: 246 (4%)
- Other means: 30 (0%)
- Worked at home: 132 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Pleasant township, Indiana:
- 636 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 144 people in nursing homes
- 115 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 15 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 4 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
95.1% of residents of Pleasant township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (30% speak English very well, 70% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,400- In family households: 10,091 (2,590 male householders, 643 female householders)
2,523 spouses, 3,660 children (3,217 natural, 88 adopted, 355 stepchildren), 93 grandchildren, 72 brothers or sisters, 41 parents, 82 other relatives, 387 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,309 (880 male householders (649 living alone)), 929 female householders (810 living alone)), 500 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 927 (245 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,325 2-persons, 749 3-persons, 740 4-persons, 302 5-persons, 71 6-persons, 46 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,459 1-person, 258 2-persons, 39 3-persons, 31 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
2,108 married couples with children.
872 single-parent households (219 men, 653 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 22
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 1.5% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 847
| Here: | 69.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |