Center township, Vanderburgh County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
57% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 23206
- Northeast: 667
- Midwest: 3220
- South: 3843
- West: 489
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $117,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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:
- 484 people in nursing homes
- 54 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 45 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 8 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 9,888
- One, attached: 218
- Two: 114
- 3 or 4: 255
- 5 to 9: 348
- 10 to 19: 410
- 20 to 49: 318
- 50 or more: 487
- Mobile homes: 1,277
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,200
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 6,299 (835 second mortgage, 1,001 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,715
- Construction (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- German (39.5%)
- United States or American (17.6%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- English (10.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (13%)
- India (13%)
- Philippines (9%)
- Ukraine (7%)
- Korea (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Mexico (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 14,165 (89%)
- Carpooled: 1,243 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 9 (0%)
- Railroad: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 128 (1%)
- Other means: 59 (0%)
- Worked at home: 310 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (27%)
People in group quarters in Center township, Indiana:
- 484 people in nursing homes
- 54 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 45 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 8 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 8 people in homes for the mentally ill
96.1% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (63% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 31,512- In family households: 27,757 (7,754 male householders, 1,555 female householders)
8,013 spouses, 9,413 children (8,535 natural, 263 adopted, 615 stepchildren), 290 grandchildren, 106 brothers or sisters, 169 parents, 217 other relatives, 240 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,755 (1,226 male householders (1,021 living alone)), 2,141 female householders (2,013 living alone)), 388 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 612 (505 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,292 2-persons, 2,165 3-persons, 1,943 4-persons, 699 5-persons, 142 6-persons, 68 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,034 1-person, 295 2-persons, 22 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 6 5-persons,
5,958 married couples with children.
1,410 single-parent households (276 men, 1,134 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 797
| Here: | 21.9% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 284
| Here: | 15.1% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 113
| Here: | 9.6% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |