Jeffersonville township, Clark County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (42% naturalized citizens)
| Jeffersonville township: | 2.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
52% of Jeffersonville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 25274
- Northeast: 1188
- Midwest: 3579
- South: 24197
- West: 1129
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Jeffersonville township, Indiana:
- 689 people in nursing homes
- 236 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 117 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 60 people in other group homes
- 23 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 16 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 13 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 11 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 5 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 15,770
- One, attached: 432
- Two: 760
- 3 or 4: 1,545
- 5 to 9: 1,879
- 10 to 19: 1,089
- 20 to 49: 751
- 50 or more: 1,476
- Mobile homes: 1,510
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 43
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,600
Housing units in Jeffersonville township with a mortgage: 9,232 (1,328 second mortgage, 1,173 home equity loan, 10 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,714
- Construction (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jeffersonville township:
- German (22.2%)
- United States or American (19.2%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- English (9.3%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (31%)
- Germany (10%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Japan (6%)
- India (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Other Western Africa (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 23,928 (84%)
- Carpooled: 3,044 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 253 (1%)
- Ferryboat: 9 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (0%)
- Bicycle: 100 (0%)
- Walked: 514 (2%)
- Other means: 172 (1%)
- Worked at home: 486 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Jeffersonville township, Indiana:
- 689 people in nursing homes
- 236 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 117 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 60 people in other group homes
- 23 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 16 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 13 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 11 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 5 people in religious group quarters
96.5% of residents of Jeffersonville township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (55% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (76% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 55,693- In family households: 45,238 (10,810 male householders, 4,316 female householders)
11,270 spouses, 15,485 children (14,246 natural, 333 adopted, 906 stepchildren), 970 grandchildren, 410 brothers or sisters, 364 parents, 508 other relatives, 1,105 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 10,455 (3,758 male householders (2,948 living alone)), 4,945 female householders (4,321 living alone)), 1,752 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,162 (905 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 6,699 2-persons, 3,967 3-persons, 2,892 4-persons, 1,109 5-persons, 321 6-persons, 138 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 7,269 1-person, 1,209 2-persons, 124 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 16 5-persons,
7,802 married couples with children.
4,017 single-parent households (755 men, 3,262 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 735
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 245
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 256
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |