Tippecanoe township, Kosciusko County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (24% naturalized citizens)
Tippecanoe township: | 1.0% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Tippecanoe township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4998
- Northeast: 97
- Midwest: 933
- South: 318
- West: 142
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
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
21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,261
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 53
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 660
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,300
Housing units in Tippecanoe township with a mortgage: 1,260 (118 second mortgage, 243 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 496
- Construction (15%)
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Printing and related support activities (3%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tippecanoe township:
- German (31.6%)
- United States or American (24.6%)
- English (9.1%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Dutch (2.5%)
- Polish (2.4%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (32%)
- Mexico (17%)
- Netherlands (11%)
- Germany (10%)
- Korea (8%)
- Sweden (6%)
- Other Northern Europe (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,811 (82%)
- Carpooled: 381 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 73 (2%)
- Other means: 44 (1%)
- Worked at home: 122 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (1%)
21 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.8% of residents of Tippecanoe township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,542- In family households: 5,594 (1,712 male householders, 242 female householders)
1,687 spouses, 1,702 children (1,526 natural, 36 adopted, 140 stepchildren), 82 grandchildren, 46 brothers or sisters, 35 parents, 21 other relatives, 67 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 948 (368 male householders (258 living alone)), 395 female householders (363 living alone)), 185 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 21 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 983 2-persons, 478 3-persons, 344 4-persons, 91 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 621 1-person, 123 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 5 5-persons,
1,064 married couples with children.
271 single-parent households (107 men, 164 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
Here: | 1.2% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 1.7% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 37
Here: | 19.7% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |