Benton township, Butler County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Benton township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
52% of Benton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1683
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 153
- South: 269
- West: 98
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $79,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 729
- One, attached: 13
- 3 or 4: 10
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 75
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,800
Housing units in Benton township with a mortgage: 330 (57 second mortgage, 56 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 92
- Transportation equipment (18%)
- Construction (11%)
- Health care (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (21%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Benton township:
- German (24.0%)
- English (17.1%)
- United States or American (13.9%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- Italian (5.5%)
- European (5.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 951 (83%)
- Carpooled: 150 (13%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 42 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (44%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Wood (3%)
97.7% of residents of Benton township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,271- In family households: 2,124 (594 male householders, 69 female householders)
626 spouses, 744 children (652 natural, 19 adopted, 73 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 18 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 147 (67 male householders (61 living alone)), 62 female householders (58 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 279 2-persons, 131 3-persons, 145 4-persons, 93 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 119 1-person, 4 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
528 married couples with children.
71 single-parent households (15 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 0.6% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 18.1% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |