Wabash township, Adams County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Wabash township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Wabash township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5146
- Northeast: 91
- Midwest: 472
- South: 129
- West: 45
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
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
187 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,521
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 64
- 3 or 4: 128
- 5 to 9: 150
- 10 to 19: 144
- 20 to 49: 93
- 50 or more: 115
- Mobile homes: 31
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Wabash township with a mortgage: 691 (77 second mortgage, 53 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 408
- Construction (19%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wabash township:
- German (29.0%)
- Swiss (28.5%)
- United States or American (12.2%)
- English (8.1%)
- Irish (7.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
- British (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (36%)
- Mexico (20%)
- Canada (17%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Other Western Europe (6%)
- Netherlands (5%)
- Poland (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,837 (72%)
- Carpooled: 501 (20%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 58 (2%)
- Other means: 27 (1%)
- Worked at home: 124 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (44%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Wood (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Coal or coke (3%)
187 people in nursing homes
77.2% of residents of Wabash township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
21.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (49% speak English very well, 48% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,791- In family households: 5,048 (1,281 male householders, 207 female householders)
1,249 spouses, 2,100 children (1,960 natural, 54 adopted, 86 stepchildren), 68 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 43 other relatives, 68 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 743 (205 male householders (182 living alone)), 479 female householders (455 living alone)), 59 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 194 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 635 2-persons, 272 3-persons, 277 4-persons, 175 5-persons, 55 6-persons, 74 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 637 1-person, 44 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
1,404 married couples with children.
253 single-parent households (49 men, 204 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 108
| Here: | 14.1% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 34
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 33
| Here: | 21.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |