Vernon township, Hancock County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Vernon township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
53% of Vernon 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, 89% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5554
- Northeast: 128
- Midwest: 510
- South: 525
- West: 112
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,404
- One, attached: 27
- Two: 104
- 3 or 4: 50
- 5 to 9: 60
- 10 to 19: 37
- Mobile homes: 27
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Vernon township with a mortgage: 1,404 (179 second mortgage, 241 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 462
- Construction (14%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Health care (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Vernon township:
- German (29.3%)
- United States or American (23.6%)
- Irish (10.6%)
- English (9.0%)
- French (except Basque) (4.3%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (52%)
- Other Caribbean (39%)
- Austria (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,855 (83%)
- Carpooled: 276 (8%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 90 (3%)
- Worked at home: 196 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.5% of residents of Vernon township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,886- In family households: 6,074 (1,613 male householders, 363 female householders)
1,619 spouses, 2,146 children (2,001 natural, 20 adopted, 125 stepchildren), 71 grandchildren, 57 brothers or sisters, 38 parents, 102 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 812 (211 male householders (171 living alone)), 434 female householders (368 living alone)), 167 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 795 2-persons, 518 3-persons, 438 4-persons, 149 5-persons, 53 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 539 1-person, 66 2-persons, 40 4-persons,
1,510 married couples with children.
311 single-parent households (82 men, 229 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 37
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 38
| Here: | 22.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |