Greencastle township, Putnam County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (38% naturalized citizens)
Greencastle township: | 1.9% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
48% of Greencastle township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8447
- Northeast: 316
- Midwest: 1621
- South: 1013
- West: 541
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
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
People in group quarters in Greencastle township, Indiana:
- 1,901 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 320 people in nursing homes
- 74 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 30 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 5 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,920
- One, attached: 152
- Two: 246
- 3 or 4: 375
- 5 to 9: 265
- 10 to 19: 159
- 20 to 49: 68
- 50 or more: 18
- Mobile homes: 255
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,000
Housing units in Greencastle township with a mortgage: 1,414 (142 second mortgage, 99 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 873
- Educational services (13%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Greencastle township:
- German (22.8%)
- United States or American (18.7%)
- English (13.5%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- Polish (3.1%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- European (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (23%)
- Japan (13%)
- Mexico (13%)
- Canada (12%)
- India (8%)
- Guyana (8%)
- Russia (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,993 (73%)
- Carpooled: 552 (10%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 16 (0%)
- Walked: 735 (13%)
- Other means: 56 (1%)
- Worked at home: 103 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Greencastle township, Indiana:
- 1,901 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 320 people in nursing homes
- 74 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 30 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 6 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 5 people in other group homes
96.3% of residents of Greencastle township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (34% speak English very well, 57% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,937- In family households: 8,269 (2,178 male householders, 594 female householders)
2,234 spouses, 2,814 children (2,521 natural, 37 adopted, 256 stepchildren), 116 grandchildren, 83 brothers or sisters, 39 parents, 82 other relatives, 129 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,668 (564 male householders (425 living alone)), 911 female householders (876 living alone)), 193 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,327 (474 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,288 2-persons, 653 3-persons, 501 4-persons, 269 5-persons, 49 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,301 1-person, 169 2-persons, 5 4-persons,
1,855 married couples with children.
640 single-parent households (102 men, 538 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
Here: | 3.1% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
Here: | 1.6% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,970
Here: | 94.7% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |