Douglas township, Jackson County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (70% naturalized citizens)
| Douglas township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
70% of Douglas township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1671
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 205
- South: 96
- West: 90
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $19,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 673
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 97
Median worth of mobile homes: $62,500
Housing units in Douglas township with a mortgage: 262 (45 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 90
- Construction (17%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (15%)
- Health care (14%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Douglas township:
- German (26.4%)
- United States or American (16.3%)
- Irish (15.9%)
- English (7.2%)
- Swedish (4.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (35%)
- Mexico (26%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (22%)
- Korea (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 849 (82%)
- Carpooled: 122 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (0%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 38 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (68%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (10%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.0% of residents of Douglas township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,119- In family households: 2,003 (578 male householders, 76 female householders)
564 spouses, 705 children (594 natural, 47 adopted, 64 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 10 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 116 (72 male householders (62 living alone)), 29 female householders (27 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 310 2-persons, 115 3-persons, 131 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 89 1-person, 10 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
492 married couples with children.
82 single-parent households (32 men, 50 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 35
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.2% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 39.3% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |