Ridgeway township, Osage County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Ridgeway township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
62% of Ridgeway township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 83% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1987
- Northeast: 19
- Midwest: 273
- South: 206
- West: 111
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 776
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 14
- 3 or 4: 41
- 5 to 9: 25
- 10 to 19: 37
- 20 to 49: 28
- Mobile homes: 130
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,500
Housing units in Ridgeway township with a mortgage: 401 (61 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 142
- Construction (19%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ridgeway township:
- German (29.1%)
- United States or American (17.8%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- English (8.8%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
- Scottish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Africa (32%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (21%)
- Micronesia (16%)
- Austria (11%)
- Germany (11%)
- Japan (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,070 (84%)
- Carpooled: 142 (11%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 44 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.0% of residents of Ridgeway township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,620- In family households: 2,321 (554 male householders, 181 female householders)
556 spouses, 884 children (812 natural, 16 adopted, 56 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 27 other relatives, 64 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 299 (117 male householders (99 living alone)), 138 female householders (113 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 301 2-persons, 155 3-persons, 177 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 212 1-person, 37 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
544 married couples with children.
200 single-parent households (47 men, 153 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 28
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.0% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |