Washington township, Elkhart County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Washington township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 29% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4479
- Northeast: 163
- Midwest: 1487
- South: 541
- West: 125
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $215,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,881
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 31
- 3 or 4: 38
- 5 to 9: 43
- 10 to 19: 35
- 20 to 49: 53
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 700
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,400
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 1,094 (167 second mortgage, 111 home equity loan, 15 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 306
- Transportation equipment (19%)
- Construction (7%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (10%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- German (30.5%)
- United States or American (12.3%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- English (6.8%)
- Italian (4.1%)
- Dutch (3.6%)
- Polish (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (28%)
- Canada (13%)
- Netherlands (12%)
- Laos (9%)
- Germany (8%)
- South Africa (8%)
- Cambodia (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,951 (82%)
- Carpooled: 448 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 62 (2%)
- Other means: 12 (0%)
- Worked at home: 130 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
93.7% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (30% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (34% speak English very well, 66% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,005- In family households: 6,223 (1,546 male householders, 431 female householders)
1,630 spouses, 2,201 children (1,939 natural, 82 adopted, 180 stepchildren), 120 grandchildren, 46 brothers or sisters, 48 parents, 51 other relatives, 150 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 782 (311 male householders (246 living alone)), 310 female householders (255 living alone)), 161 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 14 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 840 2-persons, 462 3-persons, 384 4-persons, 194 5-persons, 50 6-persons, 47 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 501 1-person, 101 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 1 5-persons,
1,377 married couples with children.
402 single-parent households (137 men, 265 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 100
| Here: | 11.6% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 2.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 60
| Here: | 30.5% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |