Big Creek township, Ellis County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (33% naturalized citizens)
Big Creek township: | 2.7% |
Whole state: | 5.0% |
55% of Big Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1436
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 156
- South: 32
- West: 54
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 408
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 12
- Mobile homes: 284
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,900
Housing units in Big Creek township with a mortgage: 123 (10 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 128
- Construction (11%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (8%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Top executives (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Postsecondary teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Creek township:
- German (57.6%)
- United States or American (15.3%)
- English (7.4%)
- Czech (2.8%)
- Swiss (1.8%)
- Danish (1.8%)
- German Russian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 723 (85%)
- Carpooled: 82 (10%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 46 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (9%)
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
94.4% of residents of Big Creek township speak English at home.
5.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (20% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,728- In family households: 1,499 (431 male householders, 56 female householders)
405 spouses, 556 children (529 natural, 23 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 4 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 229 (58 male householders (50 living alone)), 124 female householders (84 living alone)), 47 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 9 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 215 2-persons, 96 3-persons, 93 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 18 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 134 1-person, 48 2-persons,
430 married couples with children.
65 single-parent households (20 men, 45 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 42
Here: | 21.4% |
Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
Here: | 12.7% |
Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Kansas: | 13.8% |