Lafayette township, Madison County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Lafayette township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Lafayette township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 81% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4410
- Northeast: 101
- Midwest: 298
- South: 509
- West: 99
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $51,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,814
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 86
- 3 or 4: 54
- 5 to 9: 70
- 50 or more: 43
- Mobile homes: 205
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,400
Housing units in Lafayette township with a mortgage: 1,101 (148 second mortgage, 146 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 390
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Construction (15%)
- Repair and maintenance (8%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Food (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Food (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (12%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lafayette township:
- United States or American (29.6%)
- German (21.6%)
- English (10.4%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (62%)
- United Kingdom (21%)
- France (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,292 (84%)
- Carpooled: 306 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (2%)
- Other means: 12 (0%)
- Worked at home: 51 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
97.3% of residents of Lafayette township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,464- In family households: 4,873 (1,346 male householders, 329 female householders)
1,255 spouses, 1,580 children (1,320 natural, 70 adopted, 190 stepchildren), 100 grandchildren, 22 brothers or sisters, 51 parents, 25 other relatives, 165 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 591 (199 male householders (193 living alone)), 372 female householders (357 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 804 2-persons, 405 3-persons, 318 4-persons, 91 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 550 1-person, 21 2-persons,
877 married couples with children.
320 single-parent households (80 men, 240 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 1.1% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 1.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
| Here: | 19.7% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |