Tippecanoe township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (76% naturalized citizens)
| Tippecanoe township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Tippecanoe township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4202
- Northeast: 135
- Midwest: 919
- South: 286
- West: 226
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
84 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
35 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,670
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 35
- 3 or 4: 35
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 18
- 20 to 49: 9
- Mobile homes: 528
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,400
Housing units in Tippecanoe township with a mortgage: 898 (104 second mortgage, 178 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 261
- Construction (16%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tippecanoe township:
- German (33.1%)
- United States or American (21.1%)
- English (9.2%)
- Irish (8.4%)
- Dutch (4.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (46%)
- Ukraine (12%)
- Mexico (9%)
- Other Eastern Europe (8%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
- South Africa (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,506 (84%)
- Carpooled: 353 (12%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (1%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 95 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (48%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- No fuel used (1%)
84 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
35 people in nursing homes
95.8% of residents of Tippecanoe township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (86% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,778- In family households: 5,098 (1,257 male householders, 316 female householders)
1,301 spouses, 1,931 children (1,701 natural, 95 adopted, 135 stepchildren), 42 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 77 other relatives, 105 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 680 (288 male householders (203 living alone)), 263 female householders (232 living alone)), 129 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 119 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 644 2-persons, 364 3-persons, 318 4-persons, 162 5-persons, 64 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 435 1-person, 107 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 8 4-persons,
1,251 married couples with children.
291 single-parent households (78 men, 213 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 71
| Here: | 9.4% |
| 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: 2
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |