Center township, Delaware County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (29% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
46% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 51973
- Northeast: 1661
- Midwest: 6228
- South: 8082
- West: 1430
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Center township, Indiana:
- 5,043 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 679 people in nursing homes
- 169 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 158 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 109 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 104 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 26 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 20,075
- One, attached: 664
- Two: 2,070
- 3 or 4: 2,515
- 5 to 9: 2,207
- 10 to 19: 1,379
- 20 to 49: 655
- 50 or more: 487
- Mobile homes: 1,682
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,600
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 9,059 (997 second mortgage, 855 home equity loan, 12 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,174
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Postsecondary teachers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Postsecondary teachers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (20.3%)
- German (20.0%)
- English (10.6%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (9%)
- India (9%)
- Korea (9%)
- Canada (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- Other Eastern Africa (4%)
- Other South Central Asia (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 23,965 (76%)
- Carpooled: 3,481 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 479 (2%)
- Taxi: 10 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 42 (0%)
- Bicycle: 209 (1%)
- Walked: 2,349 (7%)
- Other means: 128 (0%)
- Worked at home: 745 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Center township, Indiana:
- 5,043 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 679 people in nursing homes
- 169 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 158 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 109 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 104 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 26 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 4 people in religious group quarters
95.9% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (59% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (66% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 64,824- In family households: 46,505 (11,488 male householders, 4,360 female householders)
11,075 spouses, 16,181 children (14,684 natural, 424 adopted, 1,073 stepchildren), 1,121 grandchildren, 441 brothers or sisters, 277 parents, 408 other relatives, 1,154 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 18,319 (5,404 male householders (3,765 living alone)), 7,496 female householders (5,797 living alone)), 5,419 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6,296 (1,127 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,709 2-persons, 3,774 3-persons, 2,705 4-persons, 1,141 5-persons, 395 6-persons, 124 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 9,562 1-person, 2,079 2-persons, 733 3-persons, 357 4-persons, 120 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
7,444 married couples with children.
4,932 single-parent households (929 men, 4,003 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 299
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 98
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 309
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |