Union township, Porter County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 6.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
70% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% 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: 4968
- Northeast: 391
- Midwest: 1489
- South: 566
- West: 165
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $120,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,797
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 13
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $107,500
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 1,874 (200 second mortgage, 280 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 448
- Metal and metal products (20%)
- Construction (11%)
- Health care (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (18.3%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- United States or American (10.6%)
- Polish (9.7%)
- English (7.3%)
- Italian (7.2%)
- Croatian (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (13%)
- Nigeria (12%)
- Thailand (11%)
- Other Western Africa (9%)
- Germany (9%)
- Japan (9%)
- Canada (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,521 (88%)
- Carpooled: 276 (7%)
- Railroad: 18 (0%)
- Walked: 51 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 148 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (96%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
91.5% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 49% speak English well).
1.4% of residents speak other language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,166- In family households: 7,663 (2,051 male householders, 348 female householders)
2,134 spouses, 2,763 children (2,499 natural, 86 adopted, 178 stepchildren), 161 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 48 parents, 94 other relatives, 56 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 503 (270 male householders (201 living alone)), 134 female householders (110 living alone)), 99 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 890 2-persons, 582 3-persons, 560 4-persons, 252 5-persons, 85 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 311 1-person, 84 2-persons, 9 4-persons,
1,827 married couples with children.
208 single-parent households (57 men, 151 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 82
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 52
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 53
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |