Ross township, Lake County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (66% naturalized citizens)
| Ross township: | 7.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
59% of Ross 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, 25% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 24242
- Northeast: 1109
- Midwest: 7103
- South: 2521
- West: 554
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $91,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Ross township, Indiana:
- 396 people in nursing homes
- 79 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 78 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 53 people in other group homes
- 40 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 35 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 28 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 22 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 9 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 10,643
- One, attached: 1,006
- Two: 143
- 3 or 4: 602
- 5 to 9: 718
- 10 to 19: 1,153
- 20 to 49: 601
- 50 or more: 576
- Mobile homes: 65
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in Ross township with a mortgage: 7,344 (865 second mortgage, 730 home equity loan, 54 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,691
- Metal and metal products (19%)
- Construction (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ross township:
- German (13.7%)
- Polish (9.8%)
- Irish (7.0%)
- United States or American (5.5%)
- Italian (4.4%)
- English (4.0%)
- Slovak (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (23%)
- Mexico (12%)
- Greece (9%)
- Germany (7%)
- Yugoslavia (7%)
- Poland (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 16,081 (85%)
- Carpooled: 1,764 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 92 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 11 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 14 (0%)
- Railroad: 272 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 10 (0%)
- Taxi: 17 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (0%)
- Bicycle: 17 (0%)
- Walked: 202 (1%)
- Other means: 112 (1%)
- Worked at home: 362 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Ross township, Indiana:
- 396 people in nursing homes
- 79 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 78 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 53 people in other group homes
- 40 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 35 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 28 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 22 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 9 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 9 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
84.4% of residents of Ross township speak English at home.
5.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
7.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 47% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other language at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 37,925- In family households: 32,828 (8,244 male householders, 2,129 female householders)
8,304 spouses, 11,884 children (10,912 natural, 248 adopted, 724 stepchildren), 672 grandchildren, 261 brothers or sisters, 330 parents, 573 other relatives, 431 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,097 (1,774 male householders (1,369 living alone)), 2,606 female householders (2,395 living alone)), 717 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 760 (557 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,143 2-persons, 2,516 3-persons, 2,182 4-persons, 1,001 5-persons, 401 6-persons, 130 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,764 1-person, 531 2-persons, 63 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 12 6-persons,
6,681 married couples with children.
1,734 single-parent households (342 men, 1,392 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 466
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 106
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 342
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |