Columbus township, Platte County, Nebraska (NE) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Columbus township: | 13.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.4% |
58% of Columbus township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Nebraska.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2075
- Northeast: 16
- Midwest: 339
- South: 56
- West: 169
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
93 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 834
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 30
- 5 to 9: 11
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 336
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,900
Housing units in Columbus township with a mortgage: 388 (32 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 172
- Machinery (14%)
- Food (12%)
- Construction (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Food processing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Columbus township:
- German (40.3%)
- Polish (7.8%)
- Irish (5.2%)
- English (4.8%)
- Czech (3.6%)
- United States or American (3.1%)
- Swedish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (72%)
- Guatemala (10%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Korea (4%)
- Poland (3%)
- Italy (2%)
- Other Western Europe (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,267 (81%)
- Carpooled: 192 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 68 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (56%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
93 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
80.8% of residents of Columbus township speak English at home.
17.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 25% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (36% speak English very well, 45% speak English well, 18% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,999- In family households: 2,719 (727 male householders, 101 female householders)
740 spouses, 980 children (909 natural, 25 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 39 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 29 other relatives, 68 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 280 (149 male householders (112 living alone)), 57 female householders (49 living alone)), 74 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 91 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 345 2-persons, 181 3-persons, 139 4-persons, 87 5-persons, 61 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 161 1-person, 33 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 1 5-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
704 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (46 men, 91 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 125
| Here: | 32.8% |
| Nebraska: | 14.6% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 40
| Here: | 18.8% |
| Nebraska: | 10.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 1.4% |
| Nebraska: | 20.0% |