Wea township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (22% naturalized citizens)
Wea township: | 4.9% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
40% of Wea 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, 49% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 15420
- Northeast: 446
- Midwest: 2988
- South: 1543
- West: 562
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $87,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
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: 5,841
- One, attached: 353
- Two: 263
- 3 or 4: 191
- 5 to 9: 498
- 10 to 19: 509
- 20 to 49: 667
- 50 or more: 289
- Mobile homes: 461
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,800
Housing units in Wea township with a mortgage: 4,238 (508 second mortgage, 616 home equity loan, 18 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 828
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wea township:
- German (25.7%)
- United States or American (19.0%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- English (8.7%)
- Dutch (2.5%)
- Polish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (62%)
- Philippines (6%)
- Canada (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (4%)
- Korea (4%)
- Germany (3%)
- Colombia (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 10,376 (87%)
- Carpooled: 1,070 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 113 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 10 (0%)
- Bicycle: 21 (0%)
- Walked: 73 (1%)
- Other means: 48 (0%)
- Worked at home: 247 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
91.9% of residents of Wea township speak English at home.
5.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 22,153- In family households: 18,897 (4,562 male householders, 1,396 female householders)
4,692 spouses, 7,081 children (6,601 natural, 134 adopted, 346 stepchildren), 163 grandchildren, 143 brothers or sisters, 95 parents, 252 other relatives, 513 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,256 (1,305 male householders (950 living alone)), 1,280 female householders (1,013 living alone)), 671 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 2,314 2-persons, 1,489 3-persons, 1,342 4-persons, 564 5-persons, 142 6-persons, 107 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,963 1-person, 565 2-persons, 46 3-persons, 8 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
4,610 married couples with children.
1,452 single-parent households (250 men, 1,202 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 282
Here: | 9.9% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 76
Here: | 6.7% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 133
Here: | 10.6% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |