Rock Creek township, Jefferson County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Rock Creek township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 5.0% |
64% of Rock Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2065
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 306
- South: 145
- West: 71
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 909
- One, attached: 28
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 73
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,100
Housing units in Rock Creek township with a mortgage: 425 (81 second mortgage, 23 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 148
- Construction (15%)
- Plastics and rubber products (9%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (14%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Creek township:
- German (39.6%)
- United States or American (15.1%)
- English (8.7%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- Swedish (3.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- Czech (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Western Europe (50%)
- Brazil (25%)
- Other Caribbean (15%)
- Mexico (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,093 (78%)
- Carpooled: 198 (14%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 26 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 73 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (43%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.5% of residents of Rock Creek township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,655- In family households: 2,434 (624 male householders, 154 female householders)
689 spouses, 868 children (798 natural, 11 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 54 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 1 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 221 (109 male householders (96 living alone)), 97 female householders (94 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 330 2-persons, 164 3-persons, 176 4-persons, 59 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 190 1-person, 16 2-persons,
625 married couples with children.
110 single-parent households (31 men, 79 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
Here: | 6.0% |
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: 9
Here: | 13.8% |
Kansas: | 13.8% |