Rock Creek township, Saunders County, Nebraska (NE) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Rock Creek township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 4.4% |
69% of Rock Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Nebraska.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1568
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 59
- South: 32
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 638
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 9
- 10 to 19: 8
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $91,700
Housing units in Rock Creek township with a mortgage: 289 (13 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 189
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (8%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Creek township:
- German (33.0%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- French (except Basque) (9.3%)
- United States or American (8.8%)
- Polish (7.5%)
- English (7.4%)
- French Canadian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (25%)
- Laos (25%)
- Mexico (25%)
- Canada (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 676 (87%)
- Carpooled: 61 (8%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (3%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Wood (3%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.6% of residents of Rock Creek township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% 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 well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,699- In family households: 1,515 (407 male householders, 79 female householders)
414 spouses, 527 children (485 natural, 11 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 14 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 184 (76 male householders (60 living alone)), 81 female householders (76 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 210 2-persons, 108 3-persons, 105 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 15 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 136 1-person, 17 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
80 married couples with children.
5 single-parent households (4 men, 1 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Nebraska: | 14.6% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Nebraska: | 10.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
| Here: | 29.3% |
| Nebraska: | 20.0% |