Wamego township, Pottawatomie County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (75% naturalized citizens)
Wamego township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 5.0% |
68% of Wamego township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1380
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 309
- South: 12
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $31,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
61 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 702
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 33
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 132
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,400
Housing units in Wamego township with a mortgage: 124 (4 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 147
- Wood products (17%)
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Paper (5%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (7%)
- Woodworkers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wamego township:
- French (except Basque) (20.9%)
- German (20.6%)
- French Canadian (11.0%)
- Polish (10.3%)
- Swedish (6.8%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- Italian (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (75%)
- Other South Central Asia (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 510 (71%)
- Carpooled: 107 (15%)
- Walked: 55 (8%)
- Other means: 12 (2%)
- Worked at home: 32 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (41%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Wood (11%)
- Electricity (2%)
61 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.2% of residents of Wamego township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
3.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 2% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,526- In family households: 1,296 (343 male householders, 75 female householders)
350 spouses, 459 children (439 natural, 1 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 15 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 230 (98 male householders (76 living alone)), 98 female householders (87 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 200 (174 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 182 2-persons, 111 3-persons, 63 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 163 1-person, 28 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
1,110 married couples with children.
292 single-parent households (65 men, 227 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
Here: | 2.2% |
Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
Here: | 1.1% |
Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 3.2% |
Kansas: | 13.8% |