Buck Creek township, Hancock County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (42% naturalized citizens)
| Buck Creek township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
72% of Buck Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5164
- Northeast: 98
- Midwest: 711
- South: 572
- West: 79
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
41 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,375
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Buck Creek township with a mortgage: 1,780 (291 second mortgage, 369 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 297
- Construction (12%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Engineers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Buck Creek township:
- German (34.5%)
- United States or American (16.7%)
- Irish (13.7%)
- English (11.7%)
- Polish (4.0%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
- European (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (73%)
- Germany (27%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,145 (89%)
- Carpooled: 164 (5%)
- Walked: 40 (1%)
- Other means: 41 (1%)
- Worked at home: 133 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
41 people in nursing homes
97.3% of residents of Buck Creek township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,618- In family households: 6,316 (1,859 male householders, 253 female householders)
1,980 spouses, 2,138 children (1,809 natural, 39 adopted, 290 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 25 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 302 (162 male householders (138 living alone)), 109 female householders (109 living alone)), 31 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 41 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 972 2-persons, 452 3-persons, 461 4-persons, 166 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 37 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 247 1-person, 24 2-persons,
1,506 married couples with children.
135 single-parent households (42 men, 93 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 156
| Here: | 19.8% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 40
| Here: | 9.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 61
| Here: | 27.2% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |