Vernon township, Jackson County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Vernon township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
68% of Vernon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2689
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 167
- South: 528
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,078
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 18
- 10 to 19: 2
- 20 to 49: 10
- Mobile homes: 302
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,800
Housing units in Vernon township with a mortgage: 461 (61 second mortgage, 36 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 304
- Transportation equipment (19%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Transportation equipment (20%)
- Health care (11%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Vernon township:
- United States or American (47.6%)
- German (20.6%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- English (8.5%)
- Scottish (3.6%)
- Welsh (1.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Hungary (33%)
- Mexico (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,383 (85%)
- Carpooled: 168 (10%)
- Bicycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 35 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Electricity (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
98.0% of residents of Vernon township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,456- In family households: 3,099 (793 male householders, 253 female householders)
849 spouses, 981 children (899 natural, 21 adopted, 61 stepchildren), 92 grandchildren, 28 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 38 other relatives, 59 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 357 (175 male householders (144 living alone)), 130 female householders (128 living alone)), 52 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 466 2-persons, 273 3-persons, 202 4-persons, 76 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 272 1-person, 27 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
601 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (48 men, 89 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
| Here: | 0.3% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 4.9% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |