Wabash township, Parke County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (82% naturalized citizens)
| Wabash township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Wabash township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 744
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 50
- South: 33
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 237
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 121
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Wabash township with a mortgage: 76 (4 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 46
- Construction (11%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (10%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Wood products (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Miscellaneous durable goods merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wabash township:
- German (23.3%)
- United States or American (19.1%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- English (8.5%)
- Italian (5.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.3%)
- Austrian (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Austria (55%)
- Korea (27%)
- Japan (18%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 313 (79%)
- Carpooled: 39 (10%)
- Walked: 20 (5%)
- Other means: 7 (2%)
- Worked at home: 18 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
97.2% of residents of Wabash township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English well).
1.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 858- In family households: 745 (197 male householders, 49 female householders)
186 spouses, 279 children (247 natural, 9 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 15 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 113 (45 male householders (25 living alone)), 47 female householders (45 living alone)), 21 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 111 2-persons, 45 3-persons, 56 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 70 1-person, 22 2-persons,
152 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (19 men, 45 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 10.9% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 7.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 26.7% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |