Franklin township, Jackson County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Franklin township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
79% of Franklin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 81% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2245
- Northeast: 158
- Midwest: 44
- South: 47
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $115,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 1.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 879
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 6
- 50 or more: 4
- Mobile homes: 116
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,800
Housing units in Franklin township with a mortgage: 433 (34 second mortgage, 106 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 229
- Construction (14%)
- Health care (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Franklin township:
- Polish (22.8%)
- Italian (18.0%)
- Irish (14.3%)
- German (10.8%)
- English (7.9%)
- Slovak (4.9%)
- Welsh (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other South Eastern Asia (34%)
- Taiwan (28%)
- Philippines (19%)
- Canada (19%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,120 (87%)
- Carpooled: 114 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (1%)
- Worked at home: 19 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (43%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Coal or coke (10%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Wood (3%)
97.2% of residents of Franklin township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 54% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,557- In family households: 2,319 (616 male householders, 118 female householders)
660 spouses, 839 children (786 natural, 25 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 14 other relatives, 33 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 238 (126 male householders (93 living alone)), 82 female householders (82 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 275 2-persons, 189 3-persons, 179 4-persons, 70 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 175 1-person, 33 2-persons,
190 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (14 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 25
| Here: | 8.1% |
| 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: 26
| Here: | 31.0% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |