Silver Creek township, Clark County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Silver Creek township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Silver Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5078
- Northeast: 123
- Midwest: 462
- South: 3440
- West: 131
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $86,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
116 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,911
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 26
- 3 or 4: 101
- 5 to 9: 143
- 10 to 19: 101
- 20 to 49: 18
- Mobile homes: 590
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,900
Housing units in Silver Creek township with a mortgage: 1,742 (252 second mortgage, 106 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 698
- Construction (12%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Creek township:
- German (29.0%)
- United States or American (23.8%)
- Irish (15.9%)
- English (12.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Italian (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (19%)
- Japan (17%)
- Philippines (12%)
- Germany (11%)
- Ecuador (9%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (9%)
- Cuba (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,215 (87%)
- Carpooled: 450 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 25 (1%)
- Walked: 30 (1%)
- Worked at home: 110 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
116 people in nursing homes
97.1% of residents of Silver Creek township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (37% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,284- In family households: 8,089 (2,182 male householders, 498 female householders)
2,194 spouses, 2,737 children (2,403 natural, 143 adopted, 191 stepchildren), 121 grandchildren, 59 brothers or sisters, 86 parents, 58 other relatives, 154 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,195 (463 male householders (362 living alone)), 557 female householders (515 living alone)), 175 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 116 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,195 2-persons, 657 3-persons, 551 4-persons, 226 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 877 1-person, 117 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
1,675 married couples with children.
454 single-parent households (117 men, 337 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 164
| Here: | 16.4% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 35
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 41
| Here: | 14.3% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |