Indian Creek Colony
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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.
Demographics
{{Historical populations
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| 2000 | 747
| 2010 | 904
| 2022 | 1080
| footnote = Carel Roessingh and Kees Boersma: ‘We are growing Belize’: modernisation and organisational change in the Mennonite settlement of Spanish Lookout, Belize. 2011[http://www.sib.org.bz/Portals/0/docs/publications/census/2010_Census_Report.pdf Belize Population and Housing Census - Country Report 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127084833/http://www.sib.org.bz/Portals/0/docs/publications/census/2010_Census_Report.pdf |date=27 January 2016 }}
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At the time of the 2010 census, Indian Creek had a population of 903 people in 150 households.[http://www.sib.org.bz/Portals/0/docs/publications/census/2010_Census_Report.pdf Belize Population and Housing Census - Country Report 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127084833/http://www.sib.org.bz/Portals/0/docs/publications/census/2010_Census_Report.pdf |date=2016-01-27 }} Of these, 99.7% were Mennonite, 0.1% Ketchi Maya, 0.1% Mestizo and 0.1% Yucatec Maya. Population & Housing Census 2010 [http://redatam.sib.org.bz/redbin/RpWebEngine.exe/Portal?BASE=BELIZECENSUS_2010&lang=eng]
The population have increased to 1,080 as of the national census of 2022.
See also
References
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Category:Mennonitism in Belize
Category:Populated places in Orange Walk District
Category:Russian Mennonite diaspora in Belize
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