Union township, Wells County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
69% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 90% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1805
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 152
- South: 86
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 694
- Mobile homes: 69
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 303 (33 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 138
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (49.7%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- English (7.7%)
- United States or American (5.6%)
- Italian (3.5%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 939 (86%)
- Carpooled: 67 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Walked: 23 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 52 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Utility gas (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.4% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,106- In family households: 1,978 (556 male householders, 69 female householders)
545 spouses, 734 children (661 natural, 12 adopted, 61 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 9 other relatives, 37 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 128 (54 male householders (37 living alone)), 49 female householders (48 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 274 2-persons, 98 3-persons, 158 4-persons, 72 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 85 1-person, 14 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
510 married couples with children.
79 single-parent households (23 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 3.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 35
| Here: | 31.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |