Sims township, Grant County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Sims township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Sims township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% 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: 1404
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 109
- South: 103
- West: 24
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.8%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 627
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 63
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,300
Housing units in Sims township with a mortgage: 357 (43 second mortgage, 51 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 183
- Transportation equipment (19%)
- Construction (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Computer and electronic products (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sims township:
- United States or American (32.3%)
- German (21.3%)
- English (15.1%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Scottish (2.9%)
- European (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 722 (86%)
- Carpooled: 60 (7%)
- Taxi: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 40 (5%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 11 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (48%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (2%)
95.3% of residents of Sims township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (13% speak English very well, 53% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,664- In family households: 1,482 (443 male householders, 54 female householders)
437 spouses, 457 children (436 natural, 5 adopted, 16 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 25 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 182 (72 male householders (63 living alone)), 87 female householders (84 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 225 2-persons, 103 3-persons, 118 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 13 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 147 1-person, 9 2-persons, 3 5-persons,
365 married couples with children.
65 single-parent households (17 men, 48 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
| Here: | 32.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |