Carter township, Spencer County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (9% naturalized citizens)
| Carter township: | 4.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
71% of Carter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2581
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 191
- South: 246
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $49,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
70 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 850
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 82
- 3 or 4: 55
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 17
- 20 to 49: 3
- Mobile homes: 161
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,400
Housing units in Carter township with a mortgage: 399 (35 second mortgage, 62 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 235
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (16%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Carter township:
- German (51.4%)
- United States or American (13.2%)
- English (6.9%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- French (except Basque) (3.8%)
- Italian (1.0%)
- Dutch (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (91%)
- Russia (2%)
- El Salvador (2%)
- Italy (2%)
- Canada (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,310 (78%)
- Carpooled: 257 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (2%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 63 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (3%)
70 people in nursing homes
93.3% of residents of Carter township speak English at home.
4.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 34% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (54% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,121- In family households: 2,748 (726 male householders, 128 female householders)
708 spouses, 1,072 children (1,037 natural, 9 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 23 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 17 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 373 (123 male householders (89 living alone)), 187 female householders (182 living alone)), 63 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 64 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 354 2-persons, 166 3-persons, 198 4-persons, 80 5-persons, 45 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 271 1-person, 24 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 2 5-persons,
672 married couples with children.
126 single-parent households (31 men, 95 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 1.2% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.0% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
| Here: | 40.4% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |