Center township, Ripley County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (25% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1969
- Northeast: 16
- Midwest: 372
- South: 267
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $44,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
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
59 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 865
- One, attached: 1
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 42
- 5 to 9: 11
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 50
- Mobile homes: 140
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 358 (25 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 154
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- German (46.9%)
- United States or American (20.1%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- English (7.4%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
- Italian (1.7%)
- Scottish (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (25%)
- Turkey (25%)
- Canada (25%)
- Panama (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 920 (77%)
- Carpooled: 190 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 47 (4%)
- Worked at home: 29 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (43%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
59 people in nursing homes
98.7% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,617- In family households: 2,253 (585 male householders, 131 female householders)
603 spouses, 805 children (708 natural, 5 adopted, 92 stepchildren), 31 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 31 other relatives, 53 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 364 (136 male householders (105 living alone)), 163 female householders (152 living alone)), 65 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 59 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 328 2-persons, 136 3-persons, 130 4-persons, 95 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 257 1-person, 29 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 1 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
505 married couples with children.
178 single-parent households (63 men, 115 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 1.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 21.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |