Union township, LaPorte County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1836
- Northeast: 19
- Midwest: 266
- South: 283
- West: 37
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $58,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.8% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 751
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 26
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 98
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 361 (29 second mortgage, 23 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 170
- Metal and metal products (20%)
- Construction (17%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- United States or American (23.6%)
- German (21.0%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- Polish (7.8%)
- English (4.2%)
- Italian (3.2%)
- European (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (47%)
- Germany (33%)
- Vietnam (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 793 (82%)
- Carpooled: 161 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 12 (1%)
- Worked at home: 3 (0%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (85%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.7% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,467- In family households: 2,280 (506 male householders, 176 female householders)
515 spouses, 905 children (821 natural, 16 adopted, 68 stepchildren), 68 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 23 other relatives, 69 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 187 (106 male householders (98 living alone)), 68 female householders (68 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 300 2-persons, 131 3-persons, 116 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 40 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 166 1-person, 4 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
495 married couples with children.
181 single-parent households (60 men, 121 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 3.0% |
| 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: 3
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |