Sand Creek township, Decatur County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Sand Creek township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
68% of Sand Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 64% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2401
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 116
- South: 302
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 970
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 66
- 10 to 19: 11
- Mobile homes: 114
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,400
Housing units in Sand Creek township with a mortgage: 370 (38 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 220
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sand Creek township:
- United States or American (31.5%)
- German (27.1%)
- English (12.9%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.9%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
- Scottish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (33%)
- Germany (22%)
- Poland (22%)
- Russia (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,130 (82%)
- Carpooled: 129 (9%)
- Walked: 16 (1%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 87 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (38%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (4%)
- Other fuel (3%)
99.1% of residents of Sand Creek township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,900- In family households: 2,577 (714 male householders, 139 female householders)
677 spouses, 882 children (774 natural, 28 adopted, 80 stepchildren), 55 grandchildren, 21 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 24 other relatives, 60 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 323 (125 male householders (109 living alone)), 165 female householders (162 living alone)), 33 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 381 2-persons, 228 3-persons, 140 4-persons, 76 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 271 1-person, 16 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 1 6-persons,
602 married couples with children.
147 single-parent households (60 men, 87 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 2.1% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 23.9% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |