Elm Creek township, Buffalo County, Nebraska (NE) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
Elm Creek township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 4.4% |
55% of Elm Creek 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, 68% lived in Nebraska.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 957
- Northeast: 16
- Midwest: 110
- South: 28
- West: 65
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
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: 413
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 10
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 67
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Elm Creek township with a mortgage: 155 (7 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 121
- Construction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elm Creek township:
- German (40.9%)
- United States or American (10.5%)
- Irish (10.4%)
- English (8.2%)
- Swedish (4.8%)
- Danish (3.2%)
- Polish (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (50%)
- India (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 518 (81%)
- Carpooled: 84 (13%)
- Walked: 14 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 22 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (66%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
97.7% of residents of Elm Creek township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,183- In family households: 998 (277 male householders, 46 female householders)
270 spouses, 365 children (328 natural, 10 adopted, 27 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 6 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 185 (82 male householders (71 living alone)), 85 female householders (81 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 148 2-persons, 65 3-persons, 63 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 152 1-person, 10 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
281 married couples with children.
54 single-parent households (16 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
Here: | 1.4% |
Nebraska: | 14.6% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 4.3% |
Nebraska: | 10.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Nebraska: | 20.0% |