Huntington township, Huntington County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Huntington township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
53% of Huntington 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, 59% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 16164
- Northeast: 396
- Midwest: 2375
- South: 1643
- West: 309
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $62,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Huntington township, Indiana:
- 537 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 269 people in nursing homes
- 89 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 81 people in religious group quarters
- 38 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 20 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 16 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 10 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,462
- One, attached: 125
- Two: 643
- 3 or 4: 441
- 5 to 9: 275
- 10 to 19: 172
- 20 to 49: 75
- 50 or more: 99
- Mobile homes: 492
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,500
Housing units in Huntington township with a mortgage: 3,411 (313 second mortgage, 431 home equity loan, 20 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,587
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Huntington township:
- German (37.7%)
- United States or American (23.0%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- English (7.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- Italian (1.5%)
- Polish (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (23%)
- Mexico (13%)
- Other Eastern Africa (11%)
- Cambodia (9%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- France (7%)
- Vietnam (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,389 (79%)
- Carpooled: 1,242 (12%)
- Subway or elevated: 18 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 6 (0%)
- Bicycle: 62 (1%)
- Walked: 475 (4%)
- Other means: 92 (1%)
- Worked at home: 353 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Huntington township, Indiana:
- 537 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 269 people in nursing homes
- 89 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 81 people in religious group quarters
- 38 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 20 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 16 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 10 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
96.7% of residents of Huntington township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 2% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (10% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 58% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 20,090- In family households: 16,996 (4,427 male householders, 1,136 female householders)
4,378 spouses, 6,016 children (5,422 natural, 144 adopted, 450 stepchildren), 219 grandchildren, 107 brothers or sisters, 104 parents, 225 other relatives, 384 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,094 (1,173 male householders (938 living alone)), 1,412 female householders (1,267 living alone)), 509 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,067 (415 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,448 2-persons, 1,280 3-persons, 1,116 4-persons, 495 5-persons, 148 6-persons, 76 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,205 1-person, 319 2-persons, 35 3-persons, 26 4-persons,
3,637 married couples with children.
1,358 single-parent households (344 men, 1,014 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 320
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 47
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 663
| Here: | 55.7% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |