Center township, Porter County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 3.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
50% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 21950
- Northeast: 2342
- Midwest: 9081
- South: 2181
- West: 926
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $134,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
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 Center township, Indiana:
- 1,710 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 498 people in nursing homes
- 194 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 180 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 65 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 37 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 31 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 26 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 20 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 9,833
- One, attached: 701
- Two: 501
- 3 or 4: 1,263
- 5 to 9: 1,207
- 10 to 19: 1,003
- 20 to 49: 710
- 50 or more: 293
- Mobile homes: 115
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,300
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 6,602 (819 second mortgage, 864 home equity loan, 32 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,129
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- German (28.2%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- English (8.7%)
- Polish (8.7%)
- United States or American (6.0%)
- Italian (5.3%)
- Swedish (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (14%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Yugoslavia (9%)
- Germany (8%)
- India (5%)
- Korea (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 15,925 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,237 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 47 (0%)
- Railroad: 87 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 18 (0%)
- Bicycle: 97 (1%)
- Walked: 1,106 (6%)
- Other means: 80 (0%)
- Worked at home: 617 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Center township, Indiana:
- 1,710 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 498 people in nursing homes
- 194 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 180 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 65 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 37 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 31 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 26 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 20 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
93.7% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (63% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 35,417- In family households: 28,923 (7,891 male householders, 1,638 female householders)
7,998 spouses, 10,253 children (9,345 natural, 317 adopted, 591 stepchildren), 227 grandchildren, 124 brothers or sisters, 109 parents, 230 other relatives, 453 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 6,494 (2,422 male householders (1,817 living alone)), 2,770 female householders (2,416 living alone)), 1,302 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,769 (765 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,163 2-persons, 2,240 3-persons, 2,007 4-persons, 809 5-persons, 229 6-persons, 81 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 4,233 1-person, 798 2-persons, 94 3-persons, 33 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
6,721 married couples with children.
1,623 single-parent households (316 men, 1,307 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 294
| Here: | 7.7% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 98
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2,514
| Here: | 71.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |