Belle Plaine township, Sumner County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Belle Plaine township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
64% of Belle Plaine township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 36% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2712
- Northeast: 52
- Midwest: 338
- South: 369
- West: 117
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,087
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 258
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,100
Housing units in Belle Plaine township with a mortgage: 610 (109 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 227
- Transportation equipment (33%)
- Construction (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (17%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Belle Plaine township:
- German (24.4%)
- United States or American (20.7%)
- English (14.8%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- French (except Basque) (4.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.5%)
- Swedish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (57%)
- United Kingdom (33%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,420 (83%)
- Carpooled: 205 (12%)
- Walked: 37 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 49 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Wood (2%)
95.6% of residents of Belle Plaine township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 35% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,633- In family households: 3,355 (933 male householders, 98 female householders)
922 spouses, 1,270 children (1,137 natural, 51 adopted, 82 stepchildren), 55 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 27 other relatives, 39 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 278 (132 male householders (109 living alone)), 119 female householders (111 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 391 2-persons, 226 3-persons, 234 4-persons, 103 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 220 1-person, 27 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
787 married couples with children.
180 single-parent households (54 men, 126 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 39
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 12.4% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |