Fairmount township, Leavenworth County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (83% naturalized citizens)
| Fairmount township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
57% of Fairmount township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 26% 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: 4369
- Northeast: 87
- Midwest: 1262
- South: 432
- West: 121
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $214,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,099
- One, attached: 62
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 12
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 23
- Mobile homes: 34
Median worth of mobile homes: $106,900
Housing units in Fairmount township with a mortgage: 1,227 (193 second mortgage, 66 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 385
- Construction (20%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Rail transportation (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairmount township:
- German (33.5%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- English (10.2%)
- United States or American (9.0%)
- Croatian (5.4%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (60%)
- Philippines (12%)
- Peru (7%)
- Portugal (6%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
- Mexico (3%)
- Ukraine (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,106 (86%)
- Carpooled: 317 (9%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 28 (1%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 144 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (66%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (2%)
95.1% of residents of Fairmount township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (51% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,458- In family households: 6,077 (1,728 male householders, 189 female householders)
1,705 spouses, 2,111 children (1,970 natural, 48 adopted, 93 stepchildren), 222 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 47 other relatives, 57 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 381 (97 male householders (71 living alone)), 236 female householders (221 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 771 2-persons, 426 3-persons, 460 4-persons, 153 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 49 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 292 1-person, 37 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
1,395 married couples with children.
179 single-parent households (38 men, 141 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 55
| Here: | 6.8% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 46
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 26
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |