Center township, Union County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (75% naturalized citizens)
Center township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Center 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, 62% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1605
- Northeast: 41
- Midwest: 947
- South: 318
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
53 people in nursing homes
13 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 920
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 54
- 3 or 4: 45
- 5 to 9: 17
- 10 to 19: 27
- 20 to 49: 26
- 50 or more: 36
- Mobile homes: 104
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,200
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 367 (57 second mortgage, 38 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 237
- Construction (11%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (42.1%)
- German (21.9%)
- English (11.6%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Scottish (1.5%)
- European (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (25%)
- Italy (25%)
- Brazil (25%)
- Canada (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,155 (82%)
- Carpooled: 128 (9%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 62 (4%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 53 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (29%)
- Utility gas (28%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Wood (1%)
53 people in nursing homes
13 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
96.5% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,908- In family households: 2,465 (603 male householders, 216 female householders)
659 spouses, 841 children (736 natural, 18 adopted, 87 stepchildren), 43 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 22 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 443 (155 male householders (119 living alone)), 231 female householders (227 living alone)), 57 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 68 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 372 2-persons, 216 3-persons, 141 4-persons, 68 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 346 1-person, 31 2-persons, 9 4-persons,
517 married couples with children.
162 single-parent households (39 men, 123 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
Here: | 5.5% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 25
Here: | 12.1% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
Here: | 22.1% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |