Big Bow township, Stanton County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6,566 (46% naturalized citizens)
| Big Bow township: | 6565.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
59% of Big Bow township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 71936
- Northeast: 2921
- Midwest: 7850
- South: 3947
- West: 2158
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $148,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 21,453
- One, attached: 7,292
- Two: 147
- 3 or 4: 1,423
- 5 to 9: 2,884
- 10 to 19: 3,186
- 20 to 49: 1,989
- 50 or more: 1,458
- Mobile homes: 40
Median worth of mobile homes: $105,800
Housing units in Big Bow township with a mortgage: 21,919 (2,429 second mortgage, 3,421 home equity loan, 106 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,325
- Construction (13%)
- Wood products (12%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Bow township:
- German (15.7%)
- Italian (13.8%)
- Polish (11.2%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- English (3.2%)
- United States or American (2.5%)
- Swedish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (22%)
- India (19%)
- Philippines (12%)
- Poland (8%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- Italy (4%)
- Pakistan (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 50,057 (83%)
- Carpooled: 5,252 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 141 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 30 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 98 (0%)
- Railroad: 2,094 (3%)
- Ferryboat: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 101 (0%)
- Bicycle: 48 (0%)
- Walked: 605 (1%)
- Other means: 238 (0%)
- Worked at home: 1,518 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
73.0% of residents of Big Bow township speak English at home.
9.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
12.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
5.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (61% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (60% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 110,702- In family households: 98,038 (23,562 male householders, 5,417 female householders)
24,334 spouses, 36,890 children (34,729 natural, 878 adopted, 1,283 stepchildren), 1,287 grandchildren, 1,212 brothers or sisters, 1,299 parents, 2,239 other relatives, 1,798 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 12,664 (5,159 male householders (3,847 living alone)), 5,016 female householders (4,241 living alone)), 2,489 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,007 (854 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 9,607 2-persons, 6,708 3-persons, 6,954 4-persons, 3,512 5-persons, 1,491 6-persons, 707 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 8,088 1-person, 1,871 2-persons, 140 3-persons, 59 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 9 6-persons,
99 married couples with children.
3 single-parent households (3 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,904
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 369
| Here: | 5.5% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1,630
| Here: | 28.0% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |