Springfield township, LaPorte County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Springfield township: | 5.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
69% of Springfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3165
- Northeast: 168
- Midwest: 643
- South: 420
- West: 65
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $97,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,549
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 45
- Mobile homes: 456
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Springfield township with a mortgage: 679 (65 second mortgage, 77 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 366
- Metal and metal products (18%)
- Construction (13%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Springfield township:
- German (29.0%)
- United States or American (19.0%)
- Polish (13.9%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- English (5.8%)
- Dutch (4.8%)
- Italian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (36%)
- Philippines (14%)
- Canada (13%)
- Mexico (9%)
- Korea (6%)
- Japan (6%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,837 (82%)
- Carpooled: 184 (8%)
- Railroad: 10 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 26 (1%)
- Other means: 26 (1%)
- Worked at home: 136 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
20 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
94.4% of residents of Springfield township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,704- In family households: 4,136 (1,051 male householders, 263 female householders)
1,108 spouses, 1,280 children (1,138 natural, 44 adopted, 98 stepchildren), 196 grandchildren, 76 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 115 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 568 (269 male householders (238 living alone)), 235 female householders (211 living alone)), 64 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 20 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 561 2-persons, 317 3-persons, 246 4-persons, 123 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 39 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 449 1-person, 51 2-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
810 married couples with children.
248 single-parent households (70 men, 178 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 55
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 28
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |