Lafayette township, Owen County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Lafayette township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
62% of Lafayette township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1068
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 92
- South: 114
- West: 59
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 346
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 217
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,400
Housing units in Lafayette township with a mortgage: 138 (7 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 35
- Construction (13%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (17%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lafayette township:
- United States or American (35.2%)
- German (24.0%)
- Irish (12.1%)
- English (9.0%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
- Hungarian (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Europe, n.e.c. (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 437 (70%)
- Carpooled: 163 (26%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 7 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (47%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Wood (21%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Solar energy (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.8% of residents of Lafayette township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 48% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,381- In family households: 1,278 (344 male householders, 67 female householders)
314 spouses, 455 children (404 natural, 11 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 8 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 103 (55 male householders (55 living alone)), 48 female householders (48 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 176 2-persons, 93 3-persons, 89 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 103 1-person,
267 married couples with children.
55 single-parent households (28 men, 27 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |