Van Buren township, Brown County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Van Buren township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Van Buren township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1488
- Northeast: 58
- Midwest: 151
- South: 156
- West: 50
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 679
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 10
- Mobile homes: 107
Median worth of mobile homes: $62,300
Housing units in Van Buren township with a mortgage: 244 (29 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 10 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 79
- Construction (23%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (3%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Van Buren township:
- German (28.8%)
- United States or American (23.8%)
- English (15.6%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
- Swedish (2.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (62%)
- Philippines (38%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 873 (81%)
- Carpooled: 140 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 35 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (51%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Wood (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.7% of residents of Van Buren township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (20% speak English very well, 80% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,916- In family households: 1,708 (496 male householders, 90 female householders)
500 spouses, 562 children (463 natural, 0 adopted, 99 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 16 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 208 (93 male householders (75 living alone)), 62 female householders (49 living alone)), 53 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 248 2-persons, 194 3-persons, 96 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 20 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 124 1-person, 20 2-persons, 11 4-persons,
361 married couples with children.
43 single-parent households (28 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 4.2% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |