Chester township, Wells County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (54% naturalized citizens)
| Chester township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
76% of Chester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 876
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 66
- South: 31
- West: 34
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 387
- Mobile homes: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,300
Housing units in Chester township with a mortgage: 147 (30 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 50
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (7%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Chester township:
- German (32.6%)
- United States or American (31.1%)
- English (7.8%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Swiss (3.9%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Brazil (46%)
- Mexico (29%)
- Canada (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 419 (81%)
- Carpooled: 28 (5%)
- Bicycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 63 (12%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Utility gas (13%)
- Wood (12%)
96.4% of residents of Chester township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English well, 52% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,053- In family households: 962 (270 male householders, 25 female householders)
265 spouses, 372 children (340 natural, 4 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 6 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 91 (50 male householders (46 living alone)), 31 female householders (31 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 111 2-persons, 63 3-persons, 67 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 77 1-person, 4 4-persons,
240 married couples with children.
30 single-parent households (13 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 27.8% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |