Atwood township, Rawlins County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Atwood township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
57% of Atwood township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 37% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 939
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 218
- South: 56
- West: 108
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $21,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
49 people in nursing homes
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 597
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 16
- 10 to 19: 17
- 20 to 49: 12
- Mobile homes: 65
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,700
Housing units in Atwood township with a mortgage: 150 (2 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 242
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Atwood township:
- German (39.2%)
- United States or American (11.5%)
- English (8.8%)
- Czech (7.0%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- Swedish (5.0%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (40%)
- Canada (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 495 (80%)
- Carpooled: 37 (6%)
- Taxi: 4 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 41 (7%)
- Worked at home: 34 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (91%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
49 people in nursing homes
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.0% of residents of Atwood township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 42% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,276- In family households: 1,015 (298 male householders, 72 female householders)
305 spouses, 317 children (305 natural, 8 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 261 (97 male householders (88 living alone)), 145 female householders (137 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 57 (52 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 215 2-persons, 58 3-persons, 58 4-persons, 34 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 225 1-person, 14 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
226 married couples with children.
47 single-parent households (13 men, 34 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
| Here: | 1.3% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |