Prairie township, Henry County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
76% of Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2507
- Northeast: 39
- Midwest: 173
- South: 488
- West: 85
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,075
- One, attached: 1
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 7
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 224
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,400
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 553 (71 second mortgage, 53 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 210
- Transportation equipment (25%)
- Construction (18%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (14%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Construction (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Construction laborers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- United States or American (24.9%)
- German (21.6%)
- English (15.7%)
- Irish (13.1%)
- Dutch (5.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,421 (87%)
- Carpooled: 113 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Worked at home: 77 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (39%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (3%)
97.1% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,302- In family households: 3,001 (857 male householders, 154 female householders)
918 spouses, 957 children (880 natural, 5 adopted, 72 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 4 other relatives, 62 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 301 (140 male householders (128 living alone)), 129 female householders (116 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 498 2-persons, 197 3-persons, 220 4-persons, 84 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 244 1-person, 10 2-persons, 15 3-persons,
619 married couples with children.
132 single-parent households (39 men, 93 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |