Prairie township, White County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% 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: 2679
- Northeast: 59
- Midwest: 234
- South: 167
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $83,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,112
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 62
- 3 or 4: 12
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 43
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,000
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 659 (79 second mortgage, 100 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 186
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- German (30.2%)
- United States or American (25.7%)
- English (9.5%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- French (except Basque) (5.0%)
- Dutch (3.8%)
- Italian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (71%)
- United Kingdom (18%)
- Canada (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,343 (83%)
- Carpooled: 174 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Taxi: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 29 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 68 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
96.2% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
3.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (92% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,198- In family households: 2,915 (801 male householders, 150 female householders)
793 spouses, 1,034 children (924 natural, 30 adopted, 80 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 29 parents, 20 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 283 (101 male householders (66 living alone)), 140 female householders (130 living alone)), 42 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 423 2-persons, 208 3-persons, 189 4-persons, 82 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 196 1-person, 45 2-persons,
704 married couples with children.
160 single-parent households (37 men, 123 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 2.2% |
| 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: | 5.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |