Elm Creek township, Saline County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Elm Creek township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
63% of Elm Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 701
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 50
- South: 19
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
13 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 254
- Mobile homes: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Elm Creek township with a mortgage: 131 (6 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 42
- Construction (12%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Repair and maintenance (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Educational services (27%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Registered nurses (13%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elm Creek township:
- German (34.4%)
- United States or American (15.1%)
- English (8.6%)
- Dutch (7.4%)
- French (except Basque) (4.8%)
- Irish (4.6%)
- Italian (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (75%)
- Mexico (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 369 (86%)
- Carpooled: 30 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 21 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (84%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Wood (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
13 people in other group homes
96.6% of residents of Elm Creek township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (13% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 61% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 797- In family households: 787 (243 male householders, 0 female householders)
227 spouses, 299 children (258 natural, 10 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 3 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 10 (6 male householders (6 living alone)), 4 female householders (4 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 13 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 103 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 67 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 10 1-person,
207 married couples with children.
15 single-parent households (8 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 12.9% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 25.0% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 85.7% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |