Mirage township, Kearney County, Nebraska (NE) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (83% naturalized citizens)
| Mirage township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 4.4% |
64% of Mirage township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Nebraska.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 799
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 108
- South: 15
- West: 51
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
117 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 315
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,300
Housing units in Mirage township with a mortgage: 116 (16 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 90
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (23%)
- Construction (17%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (27%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (17%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mirage township:
- German (35.3%)
- Swedish (21.3%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- English (6.7%)
- Danish (4.3%)
- United States or American (4.1%)
- Norwegian (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (39%)
- El Salvador (22%)
- Italy (17%)
- Pakistan (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 400 (82%)
- Carpooled: 50 (10%)
- Walked: 16 (3%)
- Worked at home: 23 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (1%)
117 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.0% of residents of Mirage township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 889- In family households: 794 (212 male householders, 49 female householders)
216 spouses, 287 children (265 natural, 16 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 95 (46 male householders (28 living alone)), 19 female householders (19 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 116 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 125 2-persons, 39 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 47 1-person, 11 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
223 married couples with children.
52 single-parent households (18 men, 34 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Nebraska: | 14.6% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Nebraska: | 10.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Nebraska: | 20.0% |