Union township, Shelby County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
73% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 92% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 772
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 30
- South: 38
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 323
- Mobile homes: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $39,600
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 148 (11 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 66
- Construction (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Food (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (29%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Radio, TV, and computer stores (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (14%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (13%)
- Social scientists and related workers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Bus drivers (6%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (50.2%)
- English (21.3%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- United States or American (8.7%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
- European (2.3%)
- Polish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (60%)
- Canada (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 432 (91%)
- Carpooled: 15 (3%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 11 (2%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 4 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (62%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Other fuel (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Wood (4%)
98.0% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (54% speak English very well, 46% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 873- In family households: 809 (240 male householders, 33 female householders)
246 spouses, 265 children (259 natural, 0 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 9 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 64 (23 male householders (20 living alone)), 33 female householders (29 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 132 2-persons, 42 3-persons, 65 4-persons, 30 5-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 49 1-person, 7 2-persons,
214 married couples with children.
13 single-parent households (5 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 4.3% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |