Indian Creek Colony

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Indian Creek
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Indian Creek
Coordinates: 17°45′N88°44′W / 17.750°N 88.733°W / 17.750; -88.733
Country Flag of Belize.svg  Belize
District Orange Walk District
Population
 (2022 [1] )
 • Total
1,080
Time zone UTC-6 (Central)
Climate Am

Indian Creek is a Mennonite settlement that is also an administrative village in Orange Walk District in Belize. Its inhabitants are German-speaking so called "Russian" Mennonites.

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Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
2000 747—    
2010 904+21.0%
2022 1,080+19.5%
[2] [3] [1]

At the time of the 2010 census, Indian Creek had a population of 903 people in 150 households. [4] Of these, 99.7% were Mennonite, 0.1% Ketchi Maya, 0.1% Mestizo and 0.1% Yucatec Maya. [5]

The population have increased to 1,080 as of the national census of 2022. [1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 2022 Housing and Population Census
  2. ↑ Carel Roessingh and Kees Boersma: ‘We are growing Belize’: modernisation and organisational change in the Mennonite settlement of Spanish Lookout, Belize. 2011
  3. ↑ Belize Population and Housing Census - Country Report 2010 Archived 27 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Belize Population and Housing Census - Country Report 2010 Archived 2016-01-27 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Population & Housing Census 2010

17°45′N88°44′W / 17.750°N 88.733°W / 17.750; -88.733


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