Blaine township, Kearney County, Nebraska (NE) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (20% naturalized citizens)
Blaine township: | 1.6% |
Whole state: | 4.4% |
54% of Blaine township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 14% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Nebraska.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 500
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 81
- South: 14
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 175
- Mobile homes: 77
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,000
Housing units in Blaine township with a mortgage: 58 (5 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 37
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (24%)
- Machinery (14%)
- Construction (14%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (15%)
- Health care (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blaine township:
- German (45.1%)
- United States or American (15.6%)
- English (10.0%)
- Swedish (8.8%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
- Czech (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 281 (80%)
- Carpooled: 35 (10%)
- Railroad: 7 (2%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 25 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
98.8% of residents of Blaine township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 619- In family households: 523 (150 male householders, 12 female householders)
148 spouses, 202 children (197 natural, 0 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 96 (48 male householders (41 living alone)), 26 female householders (25 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 61 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 52 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 66 1-person, 8 3-persons,
159 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (11 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 8.2% |
Nebraska: | 14.6% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 4.5% |
Nebraska: | 10.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Nebraska: | 20.0% |