Monroe township, Madison County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (66% naturalized citizens)
| Monroe township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
66% of Monroe township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8383
- Northeast: 126
- Midwest: 590
- South: 782
- West: 274
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $49,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
110 people in nursing homes
5 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,435
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 226
- 3 or 4: 311
- 5 to 9: 97
- 10 to 19: 42
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 246
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Monroe township with a mortgage: 1,715 (311 second mortgage, 136 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 853
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Food (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (18%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Monroe township:
- German (26.2%)
- English (21.7%)
- United States or American (12.1%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (34%)
- Canada (33%)
- Colombia (21%)
- Other Northern Africa (8%)
- Panama (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,172 (87%)
- Carpooled: 371 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 39 (1%)
- Bicycle: 18 (0%)
- Walked: 64 (1%)
- Other means: 102 (2%)
- Worked at home: 46 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
110 people in nursing homes
5 people in unknown juvenile institutions
96.3% of residents of Monroe township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (10% speak English very well, 58% speak English well, 32% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,247- In family households: 9,015 (2,355 male householders, 524 female householders)
2,415 spouses, 3,259 children (2,878 natural, 26 adopted, 355 stepchildren), 149 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 73 other relatives, 173 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,232 (530 male householders (449 living alone)), 545 female householders (509 living alone)), 157 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 115 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,191 2-persons, 701 3-persons, 565 4-persons, 311 5-persons, 85 6-persons, 26 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 958 1-person, 102 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 5 5-persons,
1,810 married couples with children.
667 single-parent households (190 men, 477 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 66
| Here: | 4.9% |
| 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: 49
| Here: | 17.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |