Nickerson township, Dodge County, Nebraska (NE) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (37% naturalized citizens)
| Nickerson township: | 8.0% |
| Whole state: | 4.4% |
59% of Nickerson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Nebraska.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 551
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 118
- South: 61
- West: 34
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 214
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 96
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,400
Housing units in Nickerson township with a mortgage: 61 (15 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 54
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Construction (15%)
- Food (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food (9%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Nickerson township:
- German (33.1%)
- United States or American (8.4%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- English (5.0%)
- Czech (4.3%)
- Swedish (4.0%)
- Danish (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (87%)
- Guatemala (7%)
- Korea (3%)
- Canada (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 323 (78%)
- Carpooled: 64 (15%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 21 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (45%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
87.1% of residents of Nickerson township speak English at home.
12.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 840- In family households: 757 (185 male householders, 32 female householders)
191 spouses, 293 children (265 natural, 9 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 8 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 83 (38 male householders (24 living alone)), 30 female householders (28 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 72 2-persons, 44 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 52 1-person, 14 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
193 married couples with children.
47 single-parent households (15 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Nebraska: | 14.6% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 2.8% |
| Nebraska: | 10.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Nebraska: | 20.0% |