Perry township, Marion County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Perry township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
50% of Perry township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 68654
- Northeast: 2162
- Midwest: 8198
- South: 9007
- West: 1815
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $109,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
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 Perry township, Indiana:
- 902 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 739 people in nursing homes
- 14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 24,362
- One, attached: 1,958
- Two: 479
- 3 or 4: 1,974
- 5 to 9: 5,080
- 10 to 19: 3,396
- 20 to 49: 1,031
- 50 or more: 1,972
- Mobile homes: 628
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Perry township with a mortgage: 16,389 (2,630 second mortgage, 2,063 home equity loan, 110 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 5,711
- Construction (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Perry township:
- German (26.4%)
- United States or American (19.6%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- English (9.4%)
- Italian (3.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- Philippines (7%)
- India (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (4%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 40,492 (84%)
- Carpooled: 5,268 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 276 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 13 (0%)
- Taxi: 39 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 26 (0%)
- Bicycle: 37 (0%)
- Walked: 659 (1%)
- Other means: 212 (0%)
- Worked at home: 1,098 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Perry township, Indiana:
- 902 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 739 people in nursing homes
- 14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 5 people in religious group quarters
- 2 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
95.1% of residents of Perry township speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (52% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (86% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 91,164- In family households: 74,503 (18,465 male householders, 6,072 female householders)
19,060 spouses, 26,185 children (23,796 natural, 627 adopted, 1,762 stepchildren), 1,018 grandchildren, 635 brothers or sisters, 460 parents, 692 other relatives, 1,916 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 16,661 (5,965 male householders (4,447 living alone)), 7,642 female householders (6,652 living alone)), 3,054 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,674 (723 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 10,732 2-persons, 5,903 3-persons, 4,873 4-persons, 2,060 5-persons, 700 6-persons, 269 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 11,099 1-person, 2,151 2-persons, 234 3-persons, 89 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
15,344 married couples with children.
5,683 single-parent households (1,282 men, 4,401 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,983
| Here: | 19.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 847
| Here: | 18.2% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,961
| Here: | 40.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |