Turkey Creek township, Kosciusko County, Indiana (IN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (51% naturalized citizens)
| Turkey Creek township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Turkey Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Indiana.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6717
- Northeast: 290
- Midwest: 1146
- South: 567
- West: 242
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $87,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
65 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,913
- One, attached: 167
- Two: 152
- 3 or 4: 81
- 5 to 9: 145
- 10 to 19: 87
- 20 to 49: 45
- 50 or more: 21
- Mobile homes: 459
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,900
Housing units in Turkey Creek township with a mortgage: 1,559 (192 second mortgage, 274 home equity loan, 22 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 721
- Transportation equipment (30%)
- Construction (8%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Plastics and rubber products (3%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Turkey Creek township:
- German (30.7%)
- United States or American (18.6%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- English (8.5%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
- Polish (3.0%)
- Italian (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (31%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (28%)
- Brazil (11%)
- Vietnam (9%)
- Canada (6%)
- Ireland (4%)
- Argentina (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,826 (82%)
- Carpooled: 535 (11%)
- Bicycle: 19 (0%)
- Walked: 109 (2%)
- Other means: 66 (1%)
- Worked at home: 104 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
65 people in nursing homes
95.0% of residents of Turkey Creek township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English well, 67% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,085- In family households: 7,777 (2,209 male householders, 351 female householders)
2,143 spouses, 2,602 children (2,305 natural, 69 adopted, 228 stepchildren), 107 grandchildren, 31 brothers or sisters, 47 parents, 52 other relatives, 235 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,308 (602 male householders (464 living alone)), 474 female householders (426 living alone)), 232 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 65 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,201 2-persons, 550 3-persons, 434 4-persons, 260 5-persons, 82 6-persons, 33 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 890 1-person, 175 2-persons, 7 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
1,642 married couples with children.
491 single-parent households (168 men, 323 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
| Here: | 3.5% |
| Indiana: | 11.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Indiana: | 8.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 45
| Here: | 19.9% |
| Indiana: | 23.4% |