Garden City township, Finney County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 30 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Garden City township: | 30.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
48% of Garden City township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3584
- Northeast: 92
- Midwest: 351
- South: 667
- West: 820
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,021
- One, attached: 75
- Two: 61
- 3 or 4: 46
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 18
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 1,165
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,100
Housing units in Garden City township with a mortgage: 536 (90 second mortgage, 78 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 201
- Food (21%)
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Health care (4%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Food (18%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food processing workers (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Food processing workers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garden City township:
- German (17.4%)
- United States or American (10.9%)
- Irish (3.2%)
- English (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
- Swedish (1.1%)
- Dutch (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (90%)
- El Salvador (3%)
- Guatemala (2%)
- Canada (1%)
- Vietnam (1%)
- Cuba (1%)
- Australia (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,369 (73%)
- Carpooled: 601 (19%)
- Walked: 135 (4%)
- Other means: 26 (1%)
- Worked at home: 93 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Other fuel (1%)
51.6% of residents of Garden City township speak English at home.
46.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (34% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (27% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 41% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,778- In family households: 7,396 (1,612 male householders, 337 female householders)
1,637 spouses, 3,118 children (2,876 natural, 95 adopted, 147 stepchildren), 113 grandchildren, 125 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 207 other relatives, 213 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 382 (195 male householders (128 living alone)), 99 female householders (92 living alone)), 88 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 505 2-persons, 385 3-persons, 427 4-persons, 293 5-persons, 184 6-persons, 155 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 220 1-person, 57 2-persons, 17 3-persons,
2,101 married couples with children.
474 single-parent households (115 men, 359 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 86
| Here: | 6.8% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 1.8% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
| Here: | 8.1% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |