Cottonwood township, Chase County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Cottonwood township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
55% of Cottonwood township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 116
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 16
- South: 11
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 1.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 99
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,700
Housing units in Cottonwood township with a mortgage: 7 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 20
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Machinery (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Rail transportation (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Public administration (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Food (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Drugs, sundries, and chemical and allied products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Top executives (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (10%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (8%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Engineers (6%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cottonwood township:
- United States or American (29.5%)
- German (18.5%)
- English (10.3%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- French (except Basque) (4.8%)
- Polish (2.7%)
- Swedish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Polynesia (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 84 (86%)
- Carpooled: 7 (7%)
- Worked at home: 7 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (74%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (7%)
- Other fuel (2%)
94.9% of residents of Cottonwood township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 163- In family households: 131 (36 male householders, 15 female householders)
38 spouses, 40 children (37 natural, 3 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 32 (23 male householders (23 living alone)), 9 female householders (9 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 39 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 4 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 32 1-person,
24 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% |