Walker township, Rush County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Walker township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Walker township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 738
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 26
- South: 100
- West: 34
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 330
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 47
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,700
Housing units in Walker township with a mortgage: 135 (7 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 70
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (11%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (15%)
- Cashiers (11%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Walker township:
- German (39.0%)
- English (17.1%)
- United States or American (9.5%)
- Scottish (7.6%)
- Welsh (6.1%)
- Irish (5.0%)
- Swedish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 350 (73%)
- Carpooled: 114 (24%)
- Worked at home: 15 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (53%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
98.1% of residents of Walker township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 917- In family households: 808 (182 male householders, 83 female householders)
260 spouses, 246 children (225 natural, 8 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 0 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 109 (29 male householders (23 living alone)), 53 female householders (48 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 112 2-persons, 68 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 31 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 71 1-person, 5 2-persons, 6 4-persons,
173 married couples with children.
42 single-parent households (13 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 7.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 23
| Here: | 44.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |