Carpenter township, Jasper County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (33% naturalized citizens)
Carpenter township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Carpenter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1763
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 219
- South: 79
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 732
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 32
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 20
- 20 to 49: 27
- Mobile homes: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,700
Housing units in Carpenter township with a mortgage: 311 (39 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 200
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Food (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Carpenter township:
- German (32.6%)
- English (12.5%)
- United States or American (11.3%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Dutch (4.2%)
- French (except Basque) (4.1%)
- Polish (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (33%)
- Mexico (33%)
- Canada (20%)
- Germany (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 890 (82%)
- Carpooled: 100 (9%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (1%)
- Walked: 48 (4%)
- Other means: 17 (2%)
- Worked at home: 23 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.8% of residents of Carpenter township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (36% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 45% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,140- In family households: 1,853 (491 male householders, 84 female householders)
493 spouses, 671 children (607 natural, 6 adopted, 58 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 19 other relatives, 62 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 287 (106 male householders (70 living alone)), 131 female householders (121 living alone)), 50 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 267 2-persons, 106 3-persons, 103 4-persons, 60 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 191 1-person, 35 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
459 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (34 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
Here: | 4.9% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 2.7% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
Here: | 11.8% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |