Van Buren township, LaGrange County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (21% naturalized citizens)
| Van Buren township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
59% of Van Buren township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2494
- Northeast: 108
- Midwest: 654
- South: 186
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 814
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 16
- Mobile homes: 288
Median worth of mobile homes: $50,000
Housing units in Van Buren township with a mortgage: 333 (20 second mortgage, 42 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 108
- Transportation equipment (28%)
- Wood products (16%)
- Construction (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Recyclable material merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Van Buren township:
- German (41.3%)
- United States or American (22.8%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- Swiss (5.1%)
- Dutch (3.5%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (59%)
- Hungary (21%)
- Mexico (21%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 913 (63%)
- Carpooled: 291 (20%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 25 (2%)
- Taxi: 9 (1%)
- Bicycle: 19 (1%)
- Walked: 27 (2%)
- Other means: 63 (4%)
- Worked at home: 98 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (46%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Wood (10%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Coal or coke (4%)
63.4% of residents of Van Buren township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
34.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,488- In family households: 3,254 (741 male householders, 88 female householders)
754 spouses, 1,512 children (1,392 natural, 38 adopted, 82 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 30 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 22 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 234 (119 male householders (89 living alone)), 62 female householders (50 living alone)), 53 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 244 2-persons, 150 3-persons, 188 4-persons, 93 5-persons, 63 6-persons, 91 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 139 1-person, 30 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
1,126 married couples with children.
133 single-parent households (61 men, 72 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 214
| Here: | 36.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
| Here: | 13.2% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 38.9% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |