Washington township, Delaware County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Washington township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
83% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 864
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 13
- South: 14
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
72 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 341
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 31
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 161 (19 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 92
- Construction (16%)
- Transportation equipment (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- U. S. Postal service (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Child care workers (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- German (46.6%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- Dutch (7.1%)
- Italian (6.7%)
- Welsh (5.6%)
- English (4.8%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 371 (82%)
- Carpooled: 37 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 26 (6%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 18 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (57%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Coal or coke (17%)
- Wood (3%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
72 people in other nonhousehold living situations
97.9% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 936- In family households: 839 (253 male householders, 36 female householders)
234 spouses, 277 children (264 natural, 4 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 13 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 97 (41 male householders (28 living alone)), 40 female householders (40 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 139 2-persons, 63 3-persons, 59 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 68 1-person, 9 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
381 married couples with children.
147 single-parent households (34 men, 113 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 9.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |