Sparta township, Dearborn County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Sparta township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Sparta township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1616
- Northeast: 49
- Midwest: 768
- South: 380
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $73,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 820
- Two: 5
- 3 or 4: 1
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 163
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,000
Housing units in Sparta township with a mortgage: 358 (39 second mortgage, 36 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 84
- Construction (17%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sparta township:
- United States or American (31.0%)
- German (30.0%)
- English (9.3%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Scottish (5.8%)
- Dutch (3.3%)
- Italian (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (87%)
- Philippines (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,105 (86%)
- Carpooled: 158 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 8 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Utility gas (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Wood (6%)
96.6% of residents of Sparta township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,868- In family households: 2,602 (616 male householders, 156 female householders)
633 spouses, 1,041 children (940 natural, 15 adopted, 86 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 28 parents, 17 other relatives, 71 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 266 (86 male householders (70 living alone)), 76 female householders (61 living alone)), 104 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 237 2-persons, 226 3-persons, 170 4-persons, 102 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 131 1-person, 14 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 14 6-persons,
651 married couples with children.
168 single-parent households (51 men, 117 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 9.6% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 73
| Here: | 55.7% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |