Van Buren township, Kosciusko County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Van Buren township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Van Buren township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% 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: 2743
- Northeast: 134
- Midwest: 517
- South: 296
- West: 52
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $120,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
55 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,231
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 65
- 3 or 4: 31
- 5 to 9: 26
- 10 to 19: 9
- Mobile homes: 193
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,400
Housing units in Van Buren township with a mortgage: 600 (49 second mortgage, 84 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 316
- Transportation equipment (20%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Van Buren township:
- German (33.9%)
- United States or American (18.6%)
- English (7.5%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Dutch (3.1%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- Swiss (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (60%)
- Canada (11%)
- Germany (8%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Honduras (6%)
- Russia (4%)
- Netherlands (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,538 (83%)
- Carpooled: 181 (10%)
- Bicycle: 17 (1%)
- Walked: 52 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 73 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
55 people in nursing homes
89.5% of residents of Van Buren township speak English at home.
7.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
3.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (47% speak English very well, 53% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,825- In family households: 3,410 (963 male householders, 149 female householders)
949 spouses, 1,196 children (1,022 natural, 46 adopted, 128 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 20 other relatives, 70 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 415 (170 male householders (141 living alone)), 200 female householders (187 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 55 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 468 2-persons, 247 3-persons, 243 4-persons, 99 5-persons, 49 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 328 1-person, 35 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
843 married couples with children.
185 single-parent households (44 men, 141 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 59
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 2.5% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
| Here: | 33.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |