Portage township, St. Joseph County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (34% naturalized citizens)
| Portage township: | 6.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Portage township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 61107
- Northeast: 2412
- Midwest: 13432
- South: 8907
- West: 2393
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $46,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Portage township, Indiana:
- 710 people in nursing homes
- 446 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 371 people in religious group quarters
- 335 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 321 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 190 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 110 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 109 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 73 people in state prisons
- 64 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 44 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 31 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 22 people in other group homes
- 13 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 10 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 9 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 31,013
- One, attached: 1,096
- Two: 1,854
- 3 or 4: 1,469
- 5 to 9: 1,251
- 10 to 19: 680
- 20 to 49: 572
- 50 or more: 1,274
- Mobile homes: 353
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,800
Housing units in Portage township with a mortgage: 14,505 (1,604 second mortgage, 1,702 home equity loan, 77 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 8,249
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Portage township:
- German (13.7%)
- Polish (11.2%)
- Irish (7.4%)
- United States or American (4.7%)
- English (4.1%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- Hungarian (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (51%)
- Canada (4%)
- Poland (3%)
- Germany (3%)
- Other Eastern Africa (3%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (3%)
- United Kingdom (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 30,688 (76%)
- Carpooled: 5,890 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1,001 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 4 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 32 (0%)
- Railroad: 12 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 7 (0%)
- Taxi: 91 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 45 (0%)
- Bicycle: 160 (0%)
- Walked: 1,011 (3%)
- Other means: 232 (1%)
- Worked at home: 953 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (87%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Portage township, Indiana:
- 710 people in nursing homes
- 446 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 371 people in religious group quarters
- 335 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 321 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 190 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 110 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 109 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 73 people in state prisons
- 64 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 44 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 31 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 22 people in other group homes
- 13 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 10 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 9 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
87.4% of residents of Portage township speak English at home.
8.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (55% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 92,156- In family households: 75,533 (14,502 male householders, 8,475 female householders)
14,892 spouses, 29,377 children (27,181 natural, 637 adopted, 1,559 stepchildren), 2,553 grandchildren, 1,255 brothers or sisters, 519 parents, 1,614 other relatives, 2,346 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 16,623 (5,937 male householders (4,581 living alone)), 7,583 female householders (6,643 living alone)), 3,103 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,870 (1,337 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 9,130 2-persons, 5,422 3-persons, 4,198 4-persons, 2,504 5-persons, 997 6-persons, 726 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 11,224 1-person, 1,858 2-persons, 244 3-persons, 121 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
13,048 married couples with children.
9,961 single-parent households (1,611 men, 8,350 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,707
| Here: | 14.7% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 761
| Here: | 14.4% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,531
| Here: | 33.4% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |