Clay township, Owen County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Clay township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
57% of Clay township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2264
- Northeast: 49
- Midwest: 67
- South: 162
- West: 51
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 759
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 7
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 248
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,800
Housing units in Clay township with a mortgage: 267 (25 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 117
- Construction (27%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (10%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Construction laborers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (13%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clay township:
- United States or American (31.5%)
- German (22.0%)
- English (8.8%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- French (except Basque) (5.9%)
- Italian (3.4%)
- Polish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,024 (78%)
- Carpooled: 185 (14%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (0%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 88 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (47%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Wood (17%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
98.0% of residents of Clay township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,608- In family households: 2,311 (649 male householders, 133 female householders)
689 spouses, 729 children (688 natural, 0 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 13 other relatives, 73 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 297 (140 male householders (99 living alone)), 71 female householders (63 living alone)), 86 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 382 2-persons, 194 3-persons, 121 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 162 1-person, 37 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 7 5-persons,
537 married couples with children.
100 single-parent households (31 men, 69 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
Here: | 4.2% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 4.8% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |