Wills township, LaPorte County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Wills township: | 0.8% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Wills township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1416
- Northeast: 21
- Midwest: 222
- South: 62
- West: 46
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 511
- Mobile homes: 86
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,800
Housing units in Wills township with a mortgage: 335 (32 second mortgage, 50 home equity loan, 14 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 28
- Construction (22%)
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (10%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Personal appearance workers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
- Other financial specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wills township:
- German (25.1%)
- Polish (18.6%)
- United States or American (8.8%)
- English (5.1%)
- Dutch (5.0%)
- Hungarian (4.4%)
- Irish (4.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (53%)
- United Kingdom (47%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 709 (84%)
- Carpooled: 91 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 32 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
98.1% of residents of Wills township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,796- In family households: 1,725 (441 male householders, 63 female householders)
443 spouses, 668 children (604 natural, 5 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 12 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 71 (26 male householders (21 living alone)), 33 female householders (33 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 170 2-persons, 119 3-persons, 123 4-persons, 67 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 54 1-person, 5 3-persons,
446 married couples with children.
72 single-parent households (22 men, 50 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 44
Here: | 16.4% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 4.8% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
Here: | 25.6% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |