Fairmount township, Grant County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Fairmount township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Fairmount township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 83% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3681
- Northeast: 48
- Midwest: 288
- South: 308
- West: 63
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,463
- Two: 85
- 3 or 4: 46
- 5 to 9: 19
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 285
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Fairmount township with a mortgage: 684 (44 second mortgage, 73 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 431
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairmount township:
- United States or American (31.3%)
- German (21.3%)
- English (11.9%)
- Irish (11.7%)
- French (except Basque) (3.4%)
- Dutch (1.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other South America (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,665 (82%)
- Carpooled: 279 (14%)
- Walked: 54 (3%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 33 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (3%)
98.6% of residents of Fairmount township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,410- In family households: 3,857 (1,002 male householders, 298 female householders)
1,049 spouses, 1,311 children (1,169 natural, 28 adopted, 114 stepchildren), 64 grandchildren, 28 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 12 other relatives, 81 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 553 (195 male householders (161 living alone)), 282 female householders (255 living alone)), 76 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 614 2-persons, 267 3-persons, 278 4-persons, 94 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 416 1-person, 49 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
784 married couples with children.
257 single-parent households (56 men, 201 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 14.6% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |