Salt Creek township, Decatur County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Salt Creek township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
70% of Salt 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, 43% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 970
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 32
- South: 116
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 378
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 5
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 55
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,400
Housing units in Salt Creek township with a mortgage: 137 (11 second mortgage, 28 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 94
- Construction (17%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (13%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Salt Creek township:
- German (67.3%)
- United States or American (11.8%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- English (5.8%)
- Dutch (2.6%)
- European (1.6%)
- Czechoslovakian (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 468 (83%)
- Carpooled: 39 (7%)
- Walked: 12 (2%)
- Worked at home: 43 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (58%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Other fuel (2%)
98.9% of residents of Salt Creek township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,145- In family households: 1,042 (283 male householders, 42 female householders)
274 spouses, 375 children (332 natural, 29 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 26 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 103 (42 male householders (25 living alone)), 39 female householders (39 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 108 2-persons, 67 3-persons, 115 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 13 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 64 1-person, 14 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
255 married couples with children.
33 single-parent households (15 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 19.2% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 25.0% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |