Elk township, Osage County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (18% naturalized citizens)
Elk township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 5.0% |
63% of Elk township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1393
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 156
- South: 81
- West: 101
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
81 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 583
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 16
- 20 to 49: 19
- Mobile homes: 65
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,600
Housing units in Elk township with a mortgage: 221 (29 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 126
- Construction (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elk township:
- German (29.1%)
- English (16.1%)
- United States or American (12.2%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- French (except Basque) (4.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.7%)
- Czech (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (91%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 725 (78%)
- Carpooled: 94 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 75 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
81 people in nursing homes
95.8% of residents of Elk township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English not well).
1.4% 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 well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,684- In family households: 1,487 (454 male householders, 54 female householders)
457 spouses, 471 children (425 natural, 3 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 2 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 197 (47 male householders (40 living alone)), 110 female householders (106 living alone)), 40 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 80 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 274 2-persons, 113 3-persons, 79 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 146 1-person, 4 2-persons, 7 5-persons,
324 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (22 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
Here: | 5.3% |
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: 20
Here: | 28.2% |
Kansas: | 13.8% |