Scipio township, LaPorte County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Scipio township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
59% of Scipio 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, 46% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2886
- Northeast: 90
- Midwest: 751
- South: 154
- West: 40
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
155 people in nursing homes
27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,477
- One, attached: 5
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 57
- 10 to 19: 28
- 20 to 49: 85
- 50 or more: 27
Housing units in Scipio township with a mortgage: 757 (91 second mortgage, 102 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 444
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Construction (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Scipio township:
- German (32.3%)
- Polish (15.5%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- English (6.7%)
- United States or American (6.3%)
- Italian (3.9%)
- Swedish (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (37%)
- United Kingdom (27%)
- Mexico (13%)
- Vietnam (10%)
- Germany (5%)
- Other South Central Asia (5%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,710 (88%)
- Carpooled: 155 (8%)
- Walked: 24 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 45 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
155 people in nursing homes
27 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
94.9% of residents of Scipio township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,876- In family households: 3,501 (1,084 male householders, 121 female householders)
1,075 spouses, 1,058 children (869 natural, 86 adopted, 103 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 35 other relatives, 64 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 375 (165 male householders (138 living alone)), 171 female householders (171 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 185 (155 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 609 2-persons, 237 3-persons, 248 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 309 1-person, 15 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
848 married couples with children.
106 single-parent households (27 men, 79 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
| Here: | 24.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |