Charlestown township, Clark County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (39% naturalized citizens)
Charlestown township: | 2.2% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Charlestown township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5441
- Northeast: 202
- Midwest: 667
- South: 4638
- West: 172
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
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
77 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,207
- One, attached: 152
- Two: 403
- 3 or 4: 244
- 5 to 9: 71
- 20 to 49: 35
- 50 or more: 7
- Mobile homes: 380
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,200
Housing units in Charlestown township with a mortgage: 1,804 (187 second mortgage, 197 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 669
- Construction (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Charlestown township:
- United States or American (33.5%)
- German (18.0%)
- English (11.0%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (63%)
- Brazil (12%)
- Other South Eastern Asia (6%)
- Japan (5%)
- Philippines (4%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Panama (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,514 (83%)
- Carpooled: 658 (12%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 13 (0%)
- Bicycle: 19 (0%)
- Walked: 52 (1%)
- Other means: 21 (0%)
- Worked at home: 157 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (42%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (2%)
77 people in nursing homes
96.0% of residents of Charlestown township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 23% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,380- In family households: 10,220 (2,567 male householders, 705 female householders)
2,558 spouses, 3,709 children (3,344 natural, 89 adopted, 276 stepchildren), 221 grandchildren, 65 brothers or sisters, 86 parents, 105 other relatives, 204 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,160 (493 male householders (391 living alone)), 489 female householders (448 living alone)), 178 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 76 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,294 2-persons, 891 3-persons, 698 4-persons, 285 5-persons, 80 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 839 1-person, 116 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 5 4-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
2,093 married couples with children.
724 single-parent households (127 men, 597 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 125
Here: | 10.2% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 30
Here: | 4.7% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 59
Here: | 12.9% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |