Springfield township, LaGrange County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (22% naturalized citizens)
Springfield township: | 3.8% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
75% of Springfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 791
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 381
- South: 105
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 320
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 11
- Mobile homes: 129
Median worth of mobile homes: $49,600
Housing units in Springfield township with a mortgage: 127 (7 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 43
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (12%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Cashiers (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Springfield township:
- German (28.0%)
- United States or American (20.5%)
- English (10.9%)
- Irish (4.6%)
- Italian (4.1%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Polish (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 461 (72%)
- Carpooled: 141 (22%)
- Walked: 17 (3%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Wood (12%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
81.0% of residents of Springfield township speak English at home.
7.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (23% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 57% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
11.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,359- In family households: 1,225 (314 male householders, 52 female householders)
327 spouses, 469 children (453 natural, 0 adopted, 16 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 8 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 134 (66 male householders (38 living alone)), 25 female householders (23 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 172 2-persons, 56 3-persons, 83 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 29 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 61 1-person, 22 2-persons, 8 4-persons,
290 married couples with children.
42 single-parent households (20 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 51
Here: | 27.3% |
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: 7
Here: | 50.0% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |