Rockcreek township, Wells County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Rockcreek township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Rockcreek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1466
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 127
- South: 61
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $56,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
50 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 528
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 17
- 5 to 9: 39
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 30
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,500
Housing units in Rockcreek township with a mortgage: 233 (28 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 168
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rockcreek township:
- German (36.2%)
- English (15.2%)
- Irish (12.8%)
- United States or American (12.7%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Northern European (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (50%)
- Canada (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 679 (82%)
- Carpooled: 105 (13%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 30 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (4%)
- Solar energy (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
50 people in nursing homes
99.0% of residents of Rockcreek township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,626- In family households: 1,407 (392 male householders, 45 female householders)
400 spouses, 538 children (501 natural, 1 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 9 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 219 (92 male householders (68 living alone)), 78 female householders (73 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 50 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 183 2-persons, 92 3-persons, 94 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 141 1-person, 20 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
378 married couples with children.
67 single-parent households (12 men, 55 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
Here: | 13.2% |
Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 18.0% |
Indiana: | 23.4% |