Van Buren township, Grant County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
Van Buren township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Van Buren township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1821
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 68
- South: 142
- West: 68
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 690
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 7
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 8
- Mobile homes: 99
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,100
Housing units in Van Buren township with a mortgage: 327 (16 second mortgage, 45 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 145
- Construction (15%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Construction (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Van Buren township:
- German (26.3%)
- United States or American (19.7%)
- English (12.0%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- Dutch (6.2%)
- European (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Mexico (33%)
- Canada (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 819 (77%)
- Carpooled: 187 (18%)
- Walked: 14 (1%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 36 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (37%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (2%)
98.1% of residents of Van Buren township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 56% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (15% speak English very well, 85% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,137- In family households: 1,971 (548 male householders, 87 female householders)
540 spouses, 747 children (647 natural, 16 adopted, 84 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 10 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 166 (47 male householders (30 living alone)), 87 female householders (78 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 267 2-persons, 152 3-persons, 130 4-persons, 70 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 108 1-person, 24 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
412 married couples with children.
105 single-parent households (29 men, 76 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
Here: | 1.1% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 1.9% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 25.0% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |