Wayne township, Starke County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (47% naturalized citizens)
Wayne township: | 2.3% |
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, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3530
- Northeast: 66
- Midwest: 667
- South: 593
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $71,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,518
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 31
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 25
- 10 to 19: 14
- 20 to 49: 29
- Mobile homes: 247
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,200
Housing units in Wayne township with a mortgage: 682 (89 second mortgage, 73 home equity loan, 15 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 390
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wayne township:
- German (23.1%)
- United States or American (12.9%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- Polish (7.8%)
- English (6.8%)
- Italian (4.6%)
- Swedish (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guatemala (14%)
- Mexico (13%)
- Romania (12%)
- Australia (12%)
- Poland (12%)
- Other Eastern Europe (10%)
- France (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,549 (80%)
- Carpooled: 255 (13%)
- Subway or elevated: 3 (0%)
- Railroad: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 53 (3%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
94.0% of residents of Wayne township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (54% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,015- In family households: 4,503 (1,124 male householders, 253 female householders)
1,206 spouses, 1,623 children (1,466 natural, 23 adopted, 134 stepchildren), 115 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 29 parents, 49 other relatives, 102 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 512 (213 male householders (169 living alone)), 226 female householders (215 living alone)), 73 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 519 2-persons, 318 3-persons, 316 4-persons, 155 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 45 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 384 1-person, 47 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 1 5-persons, 2 6-persons,
1,024 married couples with children.
291 single-parent households (70 men, 221 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
Here: | 3.5% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 0.8% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
Here: | 9.5% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |