Garden township, Cherokee County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
Garden township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 5.0% |
61% of Garden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 11% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 819
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 1467
- South: 454
- West: 193
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
55 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 914
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 29
- 3 or 4: 5
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 274
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 45
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,300
Housing units in Garden township with a mortgage: 308 (5 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 227
- Construction (20%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Construction (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garden township:
- United States or American (21.8%)
- German (17.5%)
- English (15.1%)
- Irish (12.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.0%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,229 (88%)
- Carpooled: 123 (9%)
- Walked: 22 (2%)
- Worked at home: 17 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Wood (6%)
- No fuel used (1%)
55 people in nursing homes
98.2% of residents of Garden township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 37% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,920- In family households: 2,580 (711 male householders, 136 female householders)
712 spouses, 850 children (746 natural, 21 adopted, 83 stepchildren), 33 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 13 other relatives, 98 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 340 (137 male householders (104 living alone)), 143 female householders (137 living alone)), 60 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 54 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 379 2-persons, 209 3-persons, 132 4-persons, 91 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 241 1-person, 33 2-persons, 6 5-persons,
593 married couples with children.
122 single-parent households (46 men, 76 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
Here: | 6.8% |
Kansas: | 13.8% |