Wood township, Clark County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (39% naturalized citizens)
Wood township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Wood township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% 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: 1559
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 109
- South: 654
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
7 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 807
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 5
- Mobile homes: 127
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,600
Housing units in Wood township with a mortgage: 338 (40 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 152
- Construction (15%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wood township:
- German (31.3%)
- United States or American (25.2%)
- Irish (13.9%)
- English (12.7%)
- Scottish (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.2%)
- Polish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- Austria (17%)
- Thailand (17%)
- Spain (11%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 976 (85%)
- Carpooled: 131 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 20 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 14 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (7%)
- Utility gas (1%)
7 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
97.4% of residents of Wood township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,403- In family households: 2,184 (585 male householders, 136 female householders)
583 spouses, 744 children (663 natural, 15 adopted, 66 stepchildren), 59 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 18 other relatives, 33 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 219 (101 male householders (79 living alone)), 90 female householders (86 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 310 2-persons, 170 3-persons, 164 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 165 1-person, 20 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
492 married couples with children.
82 single-parent households (31 men, 51 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
Here: | 5.9% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
Here: | 10.1% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
Here: | 9.8% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |