Medicine Lodge township, Barber County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
Medicine Lodge township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 5.0% |
63% of Medicine Lodge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1890
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 149
- South: 370
- West: 161
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $31,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
35 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 984
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 45
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 24
- 20 to 49: 68
- Mobile homes: 96
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,200
Housing units in Medicine Lodge township with a mortgage: 273 (9 second mortgage, 12 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 344
- Nonmetallic mineral products (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (28%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Medicine Lodge township:
- German (35.2%)
- United States or American (17.9%)
- English (16.2%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
- Swedish (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Austria (50%)
- Canada (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 976 (76%)
- Carpooled: 126 (10%)
- Subway or elevated: 14 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 74 (6%)
- Other means: 28 (2%)
- Worked at home: 64 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
35 people in nursing homes
97.4% of residents of Medicine Lodge township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,550- In family households: 2,156 (632 male householders, 103 female householders)
620 spouses, 734 children (625 natural, 23 adopted, 86 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 0 other relatives, 33 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 394 (158 male householders (139 living alone)), 204 female householders (196 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 37 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 388 2-persons, 128 3-persons, 123 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 335 1-person, 23 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
500 married couples with children.
131 single-parent households (33 men, 98 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
Here: | 3.8% |
Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
Here: | 13.8% |
Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 19.4% |
Kansas: | 13.8% |