Wheatfield township, Jasper County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Wheatfield township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
53% of Wheatfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 30% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2546
- Northeast: 66
- Midwest: 674
- South: 277
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $109,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
71 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 953
- One, attached: 38
- Two: 68
- 3 or 4: 9
- 5 to 9: 18
- Mobile homes: 189
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,700
Housing units in Wheatfield township with a mortgage: 588 (42 second mortgage, 109 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 141
- Construction (19%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheatfield township:
- German (31.2%)
- Dutch (17.0%)
- United States or American (8.7%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Polish (6.3%)
- English (5.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,441 (85%)
- Carpooled: 132 (8%)
- Walked: 20 (1%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 94 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
71 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
2 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.3% of residents of Wheatfield township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,578- In family households: 3,273 (896 male householders, 89 female householders)
925 spouses, 1,217 children (1,110 natural, 37 adopted, 70 stepchildren), 71 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 20 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 305 (157 male householders (118 living alone)), 90 female householders (85 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 74 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 359 2-persons, 259 3-persons, 201 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 63 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 203 1-person, 33 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
816 married couples with children.
153 single-parent households (59 men, 94 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 53
| Here: | 13.9% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 43
| Here: | 17.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |