Vernon township, Jennings County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Vernon township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Vernon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1817
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 159
- South: 257
- West: 44
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
49 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 740
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 14
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 110
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Vernon township with a mortgage: 419 (20 second mortgage, 88 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 72
- Machinery (15%)
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (3%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Vernon township:
- German (28.4%)
- United States or American (24.0%)
- Irish (7.0%)
- Dutch (5.5%)
- English (4.3%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- Swedish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (29%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (26%)
- Pakistan (24%)
- Russia (21%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,089 (86%)
- Carpooled: 156 (12%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 6 (0%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (59%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Utility gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
49 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
96.7% of residents of Vernon township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,298- In family households: 2,078 (576 male householders, 92 female householders)
602 spouses, 753 children (688 natural, 19 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 0 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 220 (88 male householders (46 living alone)), 66 female householders (52 living alone)), 66 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 47 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 274 2-persons, 174 3-persons, 135 4-persons, 72 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 98 1-person, 35 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
536 married couples with children.
102 single-parent households (32 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 29
| Here: | 11.7% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 3.0% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 27
| Here: | 39.1% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |