Union township, DeKalb County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9496
- Northeast: 241
- Midwest: 1914
- South: 801
- West: 157
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Union township, Indiana:
- 142 people in nursing homes
- 70 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 62 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 18 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,764
- One, attached: 66
- Two: 254
- 3 or 4: 253
- 5 to 9: 117
- 10 to 19: 44
- 20 to 49: 163
- 50 or more: 112
- Mobile homes: 645
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,200
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 2,207 (255 second mortgage, 218 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 943
- Metal and metal products (20%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Construction (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (40.0%)
- United States or American (20.5%)
- English (9.2%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
- Polish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (36%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Spain (11%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Mexico (11%)
- Brazil (10%)
- Germany (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,477 (85%)
- Carpooled: 672 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 27 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 155 (2%)
- Other means: 27 (0%)
- Worked at home: 88 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Union township, Indiana:
- 142 people in nursing homes
- 70 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 62 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 18 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.0% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,416- In family households: 10,426 (2,606 male householders, 801 female householders)
2,709 spouses, 3,763 children (3,414 natural, 75 adopted, 274 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 70 brothers or sisters, 60 parents, 91 other relatives, 282 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,990 (776 male householders (582 living alone)), 914 female householders (868 living alone)), 300 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 293 (278 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,435 2-persons, 858 3-persons, 716 4-persons, 285 5-persons, 79 6-persons, 34 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,450 1-person, 196 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 19 4-persons,
2,398 married couples with children.
720 single-parent households (163 men, 557 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 110
| Here: | 7.4% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 0.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 91
| Here: | 18.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |