Colfax township, Marion County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Colfax township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 5.0% |
77% of Colfax township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 35% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 88% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 188
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 15
- South: 9
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 80
- Mobile homes: 22
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Colfax township with a mortgage: 13 (3 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 18
- Construction (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Health care (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (17%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Physicians and surgeons (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Colfax township:
- German (38.4%)
- Czechoslovakian (12.8%)
- Czech (9.3%)
- United States or American (7.0%)
- Swedish (6.4%)
- Polish (5.8%)
- English (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 87 (69%)
- Carpooled: 7 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (2%)
- Walked: 3 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (6%)
- Worked at home: 19 (15%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Wood (2%)
96.7% of residents of Colfax township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 230- In family households: 215 (67 male householders, 13 female householders)
62 spouses, 54 children (54 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 7 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 15 (11 male householders (8 living alone)), 2 female householders (2 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 46 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 10 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10 1-person, 3 2-persons,
46 married couples with children.
8 single-parent households (5 men, 3 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Kansas: | 13.8% |