Walker township, Jasper County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Walker township: | 3.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Walker township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2099
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 478
- South: 249
- West: 42
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 938
- Two: 40
- Mobile homes: 59
Median worth of mobile homes: $120,800
Housing units in Walker township with a mortgage: 413 (65 second mortgage, 76 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 170
- Construction (23%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (2%)
- Accommodation and food services (17%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (11%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Bus drivers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Walker township:
- United States or American (19.6%)
- German (19.1%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- Dutch (6.9%)
- English (5.2%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Slovak (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (53%)
- Yugoslavia (18%)
- Poland (11%)
- Korea (9%)
- Turkey (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,118 (84%)
- Carpooled: 122 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (3%)
- Other means: 18 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (63%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
92.4% of residents of Walker township speak English at home.
6.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 30% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (39% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,982- In family households: 2,776 (652 male householders, 136 female householders)
682 spouses, 1,090 children (981 natural, 32 adopted, 77 stepchildren), 92 grandchildren, 23 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 29 other relatives, 47 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 206 (79 male householders (65 living alone)), 83 female householders (74 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 239 2-persons, 204 3-persons, 183 4-persons, 86 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 60 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 139 1-person, 9 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
647 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (29 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 54
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 26.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |