Chester township, Wabash County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (27% naturalized citizens)
| Chester township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Chester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6170
- Northeast: 157
- Midwest: 929
- South: 604
- West: 149
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Chester township, Indiana:
- 767 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 466 people in nursing homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,171
- One, attached: 113
- Two: 163
- 3 or 4: 171
- 5 to 9: 108
- 10 to 19: 20
- 20 to 49: 7
- 50 or more: 19
- Mobile homes: 219
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,300
Housing units in Chester township with a mortgage: 1,053 (83 second mortgage, 85 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 553
- Educational services (11%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (23%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Printing and related support activities (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chester township:
- German (42.7%)
- United States or American (22.1%)
- English (9.1%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.1%)
- Scottish (1.2%)
- Italian (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (32%)
- Mexico (27%)
- Pakistan (24%)
- Germany (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,982 (75%)
- Carpooled: 461 (12%)
- Bicycle: 29 (1%)
- Walked: 372 (9%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 128 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Chester township, Indiana:
- 767 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 466 people in nursing homes
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.4% of residents of Chester township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,879- In family households: 5,841 (1,756 male householders, 228 female householders)
1,620 spouses, 1,968 children (1,805 natural, 86 adopted, 77 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 43 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 79 other relatives, 75 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,038 (302 male householders (227 living alone)), 559 female householders (527 living alone)), 177 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,251 (460 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 908 2-persons, 470 3-persons, 408 4-persons, 123 5-persons, 43 6-persons, 32 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 754 1-person, 86 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 8 5-persons,
1,208 married couples with children.
308 single-parent households (73 men, 235 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 1.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 2.5% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 938
| Here: | 85.4% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |