Deer Creek township, Carroll County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 7 (23% naturalized citizens)
| Deer Creek township: | 6.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Deer Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3579
- Northeast: 84
- Midwest: 350
- South: 353
- West: 76
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
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
People in group quarters in Deer Creek township, Indiana:
- 96 people in nursing homes
- 18 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,441
- One, attached: 36
- Two: 135
- 3 or 4: 88
- 5 to 9: 51
- 10 to 19: 34
- Mobile homes: 106
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $41,300
Housing units in Deer Creek township with a mortgage: 616 (92 second mortgage, 86 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 378
- Construction (12%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Food (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Food processing workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Deer Creek township:
- United States or American (29.1%)
- German (21.4%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- English (10.2%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (86%)
- El Salvador (11%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (2%)
- Germany (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,777 (77%)
- Carpooled: 322 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 48 (2%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 113 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Deer Creek township, Indiana:
- 96 people in nursing homes
- 18 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
90.8% of residents of Deer Creek township speak English at home.
8.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (39% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 23% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,687- In family households: 4,010 (1,069 male householders, 176 female householders)
1,080 spouses, 1,440 children (1,269 natural, 48 adopted, 123 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 38 brothers or sisters, 37 parents, 28 other relatives, 115 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 677 (240 male householders (199 living alone)), 337 female householders (313 living alone)), 100 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 118 (112 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 515 2-persons, 254 3-persons, 275 4-persons, 121 5-persons, 40 6-persons, 40 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 512 1-person, 51 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 4 6-persons,
1,016 married couples with children.
195 single-parent households (57 men, 138 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 25
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |