Dover township, Shawnee County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Dover township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
58% of Dover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1308
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 211
- South: 117
- West: 82
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
408 people in state prisons
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 476
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 55
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Dover township with a mortgage: 197 (36 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 52
- Construction (12%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Health care (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (15%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dover township:
- German (27.8%)
- United States or American (17.5%)
- English (9.9%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- Scottish (3.5%)
- European (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (57%)
- Russia (43%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 683 (83%)
- Carpooled: 107 (13%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 26 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (71%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Other fuel (2%)
408 people in state prisons
95.0% of residents of Dover township speak English at home.
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,330- In family households: 1,210 (368 male householders, 31 female householders)
355 spouses, 418 children (359 natural, 19 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 10 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 120 (50 male householders (27 living alone)), 42 female householders (42 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 410 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 176 2-persons, 98 3-persons, 91 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 69 1-person, 18 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
274 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (11 men, 13 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 44
| Here: | 24.3% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |