Fairfield township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (24% naturalized citizens)
| Fairfield township: | 7.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
44% of Fairfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 33037
- Northeast: 1569
- Midwest: 5917
- South: 3602
- West: 1654
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $176,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Fairfield township, Indiana:
- 505 people in nursing homes
- 362 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 100 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 39 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 22 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 19 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 13 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 13,362
- One, attached: 658
- Two: 1,755
- 3 or 4: 1,982
- 5 to 9: 1,905
- 10 to 19: 1,344
- 20 to 49: 758
- 50 or more: 709
- Mobile homes: 363
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,900
Housing units in Fairfield township with a mortgage: 7,011 (841 second mortgage, 1,155 home equity loan, 24 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,262
- Educational services (13%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Postsecondary teachers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Postsecondary teachers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairfield township:
- German (22.5%)
- United States or American (16.0%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- English (9.0%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (63%)
- Philippines (3%)
- Germany (3%)
- Vietnam (3%)
- Japan (2%)
- El Salvador (2%)
- Canada (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 20,141 (79%)
- Carpooled: 3,178 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 449 (2%)
- Taxi: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 14 (0%)
- Bicycle: 149 (1%)
- Walked: 657 (3%)
- Other means: 177 (1%)
- Worked at home: 638 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Fairfield township, Indiana:
- 505 people in nursing homes
- 362 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 100 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 39 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 22 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 19 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 13 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in other nonhousehold living situations
89.2% of residents of Fairfield township speak English at home.
8.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (47% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 48,923- In family households: 36,691 (9,064 male householders, 2,977 female householders)
9,431 spouses, 12,318 children (11,475 natural, 238 adopted, 605 stepchildren), 422 grandchildren, 583 brothers or sisters, 223 parents, 633 other relatives, 1,040 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 12,232 (4,641 male householders (3,415 living alone)), 4,818 female householders (4,028 living alone)), 2,773 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,071 (866 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 5,438 2-persons, 2,753 3-persons, 2,154 4-persons, 1,100 5-persons, 356 6-persons, 240 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 7,443 1-person, 1,587 2-persons, 289 3-persons, 69 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
7,040 married couples with children.
3,037 single-parent households (690 men, 2,347 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 520
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 174
| Here: | 7.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 214
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |