Paw Paw township, Wabash County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Paw Paw township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
73% of Paw Paw township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1309
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 60
- South: 97
- West: 24
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 540
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 2
- 5 to 9: 12
- 10 to 19: 6
- Mobile homes: 36
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,500
Housing units in Paw Paw township with a mortgage: 282 (4 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 100
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Construction (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Paper (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (14%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Bus drivers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Paw Paw township:
- German (50.1%)
- United States or American (12.4%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- English (7.8%)
- Italian (3.8%)
- Dutch (3.5%)
- Polish (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Peru (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 678 (88%)
- Carpooled: 31 (4%)
- Walked: 13 (2%)
- Other means: 16 (2%)
- Worked at home: 35 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (37%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (3%)
98.8% of residents of Paw Paw township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,516- In family households: 1,373 (428 male householders, 49 female householders)
410 spouses, 425 children (382 natural, 0 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 2 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 143 (71 male householders (66 living alone)), 55 female householders (52 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 223 2-persons, 102 3-persons, 108 4-persons, 44 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 118 1-person, 2 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
344 married couples with children.
50 single-parent households (12 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
Here: | 1.5% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 28.6% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |