Union township, Marshall County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (32% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2254
- Northeast: 68
- Midwest: 508
- South: 173
- West: 77
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $93,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
61 people in nursing homes
7 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,476
- One, attached: 36
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 22
- 5 to 9: 46
- 10 to 19: 25
- 20 to 49: 26
- Mobile homes: 95
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,700
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 452 (47 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 313
- Educational services (14%)
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Educational services (23%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (36.8%)
- English (13.7%)
- United States or American (11.6%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- Italian (3.7%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- Polish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (41%)
- Mexico (23%)
- Netherlands (14%)
- Spain (5%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (5%)
- Costa Rica (5%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,069 (77%)
- Carpooled: 130 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 92 (7%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 65 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (4%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
61 people in nursing homes
7 people in other group homes
97.2% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (29% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 53% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,066- In family households: 2,614 (659 male householders, 203 female householders)
676 spouses, 873 children (789 natural, 19 adopted, 65 stepchildren), 60 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 35 parents, 30 other relatives, 67 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 452 (176 male householders (162 living alone)), 208 female householders (179 living alone)), 68 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 67 (62 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 421 2-persons, 178 3-persons, 144 4-persons, 74 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 341 1-person, 37 2-persons, 4 4-persons, 2 6-persons,
559 married couples with children.
138 single-parent households (34 men, 104 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 1.1% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 13.5% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 37
| Here: | 42.5% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |