Center township, Marion County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (23% naturalized citizens)
Center township: | 4.0% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 116503
- Northeast: 2936
- Midwest: 10925
- South: 26247
- West: 2975
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $43,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 9.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
People in group quarters in Center township, Indiana:
- 3,377 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 1,379 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 877 people in nursing homes
- 521 people in state prisons
- 345 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 311 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 244 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 232 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 169 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 165 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 139 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 130 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 118 people in halfway houses
- 80 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 79 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 69 people in religious group quarters
- 28 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 20 people in other group homes
- 19 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 45,539
- One, attached: 9,059
- Two: 5,831
- 3 or 4: 3,807
- 5 to 9: 2,905
- 10 to 19: 2,758
- 20 to 49: 3,314
- 50 or more: 4,889
- Mobile homes: 189
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 34
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,800
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 19,718 (2,483 second mortgage, 1,954 home equity loan, 90 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 10,160
- Construction (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Health care (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (13.4%)
- German (10.0%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- English (4.2%)
- African (2.0%)
- Italian (1.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (59%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
- Germany (2%)
- Honduras (2%)
- Other Western Africa (2%)
- Philippines (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 43,048 (66%)
- Carpooled: 12,283 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4,893 (8%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 9 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 9 (0%)
- Railroad: 7 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 18 (0%)
- Taxi: 105 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 35 (0%)
- Bicycle: 363 (1%)
- Walked: 2,735 (4%)
- Other means: 535 (1%)
- Worked at home: 1,199 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (81%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Center township, Indiana:
- 3,377 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 1,379 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 877 people in nursing homes
- 521 people in state prisons
- 345 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 311 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 244 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 232 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 169 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 165 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 139 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 130 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 118 people in halfway houses
- 80 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 79 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 69 people in religious group quarters
- 28 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 20 people in other group homes
- 19 people in unknown juvenile institutions
- 10 people in homes for the mentally ill
92.9% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
5.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (49% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (69% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 159,109- In family households: 123,001 (20,318 male householders, 16,520 female householders)
19,195 spouses, 47,445 children (43,282 natural, 1,432 adopted, 2,731 stepchildren), 6,823 grandchildren, 2,119 brothers or sisters, 1,312 parents, 3,233 other relatives, 6,036 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 36,108 (15,033 male householders (11,545 living alone)), 14,277 female householders (12,348 living alone)), 6,798 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7,946 (6,256 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 13,881 2-persons, 9,187 3-persons, 6,593 4-persons, 4,004 5-persons, 1,879 6-persons, 1,294 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 23,893 1-person, 4,565 2-persons, 585 3-persons, 147 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
15,508 married couples with children.
19,371 single-parent households (3,504 men, 15,867 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2,666
Here: | 13.1% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 775
Here: | 9.3% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,094
Here: | 18.6% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |