Cotton township, Switzerland County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Cotton township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Cotton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 918
- Northeast: 49
- Midwest: 287
- South: 263
- West: 63
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 377
- One, attached: 5
- Mobile homes: 219
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,600
Housing units in Cotton township with a mortgage: 135 (0 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 53
- Construction (22%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (31%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (9%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Woodworkers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cotton township:
- United States or American (30.8%)
- German (22.1%)
- Irish (17.1%)
- English (6.6%)
- French (except Basque) (4.5%)
- Scottish (3.2%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 573 (76%)
- Carpooled: 126 (17%)
- Walked: 18 (2%)
- Worked at home: 35 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (44%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (6%)
- No fuel used (2%)
98.8% of residents of Cotton township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,590- In family households: 1,494 (422 male householders, 53 female householders)
412 spouses, 494 children (385 natural, 0 adopted, 109 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 12 other relatives, 47 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 96 (51 male householders (41 living alone)), 35 female householders (35 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 183 2-persons, 116 3-persons, 98 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 76 1-person, 10 2-persons,
291 married couples with children.
77 single-parent households (42 men, 35 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 3.1% |
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: 6
Here: | 30.0% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |