Blue Creek TownshipIN
A town of 1,600. Public schools that outperform most of Indiana.
Is Blue Creek Township a good place to live?
The best of Blue Creek Township’s subject grades is an A for schools; the weakest is a D for incomes. Blue Creek Township’s average trip to work is 45 minutes, above both the Indiana town median (24 minutes) and the median of U.S. towns (25 minutes). On incomes, just 53 of Indiana’s 1,096 towns do worse. On civic life, just 13 of Indiana’s 1,043 towns do worse. Blue Creek Township has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Blue Creek Township stand out
Where Blue Creek Township beats most towns.
99% of working residents leave Blue Creek Township for work
Where Blue Creek Township’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
How Blue Creek Township grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Indiana), ordered by how far Blue Creek Township is from typical.
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Moving to Blue Creek Township: who provides what
Who provides power, water and the rest in Blue Creek Township, and how to reach them.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Blue Creek Township.
Blue Creek Township’s public schools outperform 85% of Indiana districts
One of its 2 schools is below, with why it’s listed.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Amish School PrivateLargest elementary schoolGrades 1–8 | Grades 1–8 | 49 | – |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within IN on state tests and graduation
Health in Blue Creek Township trails 83% of U.S. towns
Blue Creek Township beats the Indiana average on 0 of 32 CDC measures and trails it on 10. 21% of Blue Creek Township adults report frequent mental distress, above both Indiana’s towns (18%) and U.S. towns (17%). 20% of Blue Creek Township adults smoke cigarettes.
| Blue Creek Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 21% | 18% | 17% |
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 20% | 17% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 28% | 26% | 23% |
| Fair or poor health (CDC PLACES) | 24% | 21% | 19% |
| What stands out | Blue Creek Township | IN |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 22.8% | 15.4% |
| More smokers | 20% | 15.7% |
| More adults with COPD | 10% | 8.1% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Blue Creek Township’s workers commute out
Most working residents leave Blue Creek Township for work: only 1% work in town. 26% of residents live below the poverty line in Blue Creek Township. Jobs based in Blue Creek Township grew to 90 in 2023, 36 more than in 2013.
| Blue Creek Township | Indiana towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below the poverty line | 26% | 10% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 1.3% | 11% | 8% |
| Median household income | $59,000 | $71,000 | $80,000 |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Blue Creek Township has four seasons and pleasant summers
Blue Creek Township has chilly winters and warm summers. July afternoons reach 84°, January nights drop to 19° and about 28 inches of snow falls in a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
Low risk in Blue Creek Township, with inland flooding at the top
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 66% of U.S. communities.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about Blue Creek Township
Colleges nearby
None within 15 miles of Blue Creek Township; the nearest are
About 0 of every 100 Blue Creek Township residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Indiana.
About Blue Creek Township
Township in Indiana, United States
Blue Creek Township is one of twelve townships in Adams County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,540. The majority of the Township, some two thirds, speak an Amish form of Bernese German, a Swiss German dialect, as their mother tongue.
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- Area
- 24 sq mi
- Elevation
- 817 ft
Blue Creek Township’s neighbors
4 towns share a border with Blue Creek Township.
| Town | IN rank | Overall | Cost | Safety | Schools | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Creek Township | — | — | B− | — | A | C− |
| Monroe Township | #234 | B+ | A− | — | A− | D |
| Jefferson Township | — | — | C+ | — | B+ | D− |
| St. Marys Township | — | — | A− | — | A | C− |
Blue Creek Township, Jefferson Township and St. Marys Township have fewer than 2,500 residents, so they get subject grades but no overall grade. Blue Creek Township, Monroe Township, Jefferson Township and St. Marys Township report no FBI crime data of their own. Compare Blue Creek Township with a neighbor →
Questions about Blue Creek Township
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Blue Creek Township, IN a good place to live?
Public schools that outperform most of Indiana.
Is Blue Creek Township, IN expensive?
Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades B−.