Center township, Howard County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (51% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
53% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 35188
- Northeast: 1147
- Midwest: 4374
- South: 4867
- West: 958
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
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
People in group quarters in Center township, Indiana:
- 582 people in nursing homes
- 194 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 107 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 105 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 32 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 14 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 13 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 13 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 2 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 15,673
- One, attached: 704
- Two: 812
- 3 or 4: 1,385
- 5 to 9: 1,165
- 10 to 19: 542
- 20 to 49: 446
- 50 or more: 881
- Mobile homes: 920
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,100
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 8,192 (1,069 second mortgage, 746 home equity loan, 60 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,903
- Transportation equipment (22%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (22.9%)
- German (18.2%)
- English (8.8%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (16%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (12%)
- Germany (11%)
- Canada (9%)
- India (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Italy (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 17,251 (82%)
- Carpooled: 2,541 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 6 (0%)
- Taxi: 77 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 92 (0%)
- Walked: 455 (2%)
- Other means: 145 (1%)
- Worked at home: 372 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Center township, Indiana:
- 582 people in nursing homes
- 194 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 107 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 105 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 32 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 14 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 13 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 13 people in religious group quarters
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 2 people in other group homes
95.9% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 37% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (52% speak English very well, 48% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 46,545- In family households: 37,492 (9,198 male householders, 3,377 female householders)
8,947 spouses, 13,162 children (11,765 natural, 304 adopted, 1,093 stepchildren), 941 grandchildren, 239 brothers or sisters, 205 parents, 391 other relatives, 1,032 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 9,053 (3,411 male householders (2,852 living alone)), 4,503 female householders (4,127 living alone)), 1,139 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,076 (918 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 5,930 2-persons, 2,977 3-persons, 2,275 4-persons, 976 5-persons, 325 6-persons, 92 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 6,979 1-person, 800 2-persons, 92 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
6,749 married couples with children.
3,746 single-parent households (689 men, 3,057 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 537
| Here: | 11.2% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 161
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 119
| Here: | 9.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |