Rock Creek township, Bartholomew County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Rock Creek township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Rock Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1114
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 64
- South: 80
- West: 47
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 500
- Two: 7
Housing units in Rock Creek township with a mortgage: 245 (29 second mortgage, 61 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 119
- Machinery (22%)
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Social assistance (10%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- U. S. Postal service (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (18%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Engineers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (13%)
- Registered nurses (13%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Creek township:
- German (37.6%)
- United States or American (25.1%)
- English (11.0%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- European (3.2%)
- Polish (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 589 (89%)
- Carpooled: 37 (6%)
- Walked: 13 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (50%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Wood (2%)
96.3% of residents of Rock Creek township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English well, 60% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,317- In family households: 1,211 (331 male householders, 82 female householders)
346 spouses, 415 children (400 natural, 11 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 14 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 106 (51 male householders (38 living alone)), 40 female householders (40 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 210 2-persons, 72 3-persons, 74 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 19 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 78 1-person, 13 2-persons,
249 married couples with children.
34 single-parent households (16 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 50
| Here: | 29.4% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 18.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |