Lancaster township, Wells County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (68% naturalized citizens)
Lancaster township: | 1.4% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Lancaster township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4207
- Northeast: 99
- Midwest: 658
- South: 268
- West: 64
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
214 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,412
- One, attached: 50
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 67
- 5 to 9: 120
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 18
- 50 or more: 90
- Mobile homes: 390
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,800
Housing units in Lancaster township with a mortgage: 698 (132 second mortgage, 95 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 377
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
- Cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lancaster township:
- German (31.7%)
- United States or American (16.8%)
- English (9.5%)
- Swiss (9.1%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- Italian (3.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (28%)
- Germany (22%)
- Mexico (18%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- France (9%)
- Korea (8%)
- Japan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,238 (85%)
- Carpooled: 202 (8%)
- Walked: 73 (3%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 99 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (1%)
214 people in nursing homes
95.0% of residents of Lancaster township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,168- In family households: 4,466 (1,199 male householders, 268 female householders)
1,202 spouses, 1,620 children (1,498 natural, 25 adopted, 97 stepchildren), 56 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 37 other relatives, 65 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 702 (253 male householders (199 living alone)), 368 female householders (359 living alone)), 81 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 217 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 677 2-persons, 296 3-persons, 296 4-persons, 137 5-persons, 50 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 558 1-person, 54 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
1,071 married couples with children.
235 single-parent households (58 men, 177 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
Here: | 5.3% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 1.8% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 35
Here: | 37.6% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |