Wayne township, Jay County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Wayne township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Wayne township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6439
- Northeast: 79
- Midwest: 734
- South: 548
- West: 137
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Wayne township, Indiana:
- 94 people in nursing homes
- 38 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 35 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 22 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,916
- One, attached: 31
- Two: 150
- 3 or 4: 137
- 5 to 9: 116
- 10 to 19: 21
- 20 to 49: 50
- 50 or more: 11
- Mobile homes: 162
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,000
Housing units in Wayne township with a mortgage: 1,210 (95 second mortgage, 136 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 851
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Computer and electronic products (7%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wayne township:
- United States or American (32.9%)
- German (23.9%)
- English (9.7%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- Italian (1.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.5%)
- Dutch (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (58%)
- Japan (17%)
- India (11%)
- Honduras (6%)
- Germany (5%)
- Canada (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,179 (82%)
- Carpooled: 457 (12%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 25 (1%)
- Walked: 82 (2%)
- Other means: 40 (1%)
- Worked at home: 94 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Wayne township, Indiana:
- 94 people in nursing homes
- 38 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 35 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 22 people in homes for the mentally retarded
94.7% of residents of Wayne township speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,974- In family households: 6,706 (1,873 male householders, 393 female householders)
1,843 spouses, 2,195 children (2,008 natural, 23 adopted, 164 stepchildren), 131 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 50 parents, 57 other relatives, 149 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,268 (422 male householders (335 living alone)), 691 female householders (646 living alone)), 155 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 188 (129 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,129 2-persons, 513 3-persons, 405 4-persons, 148 5-persons, 55 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 981 1-person, 112 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 14 4-persons,
1,277 married couples with children.
480 single-parent households (111 men, 369 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 0.7% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 33
| Here: | 17.1% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |