Granite township, Phillips County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1,914 (37% naturalized citizens)
| Granite township: | 1914.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
64% of Granite township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7187
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 641
- South: 254
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $159,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,575
- One, attached: 52
- Two: 80
- 3 or 4: 145
- 5 to 9: 83
- 10 to 19: 23
- 20 to 49: 122
- 50 or more: 6
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,700
Housing units in Granite township with a mortgage: 1,343 (127 second mortgage, 267 home equity loan, 13 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 612
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Construction (11%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (12%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Printing and related support activities (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Cashiers (3%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Granite township:
- German (44.4%)
- United States or American (15.1%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- English (5.1%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Swiss (2.0%)
- French (except Basque) (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (73%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- Other Western Asia (4%)
- Colombia (3%)
- Venezuela (3%)
- Germany (3%)
- Costa Rica (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,207 (78%)
- Carpooled: 460 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 120 (3%)
- Walked: 110 (3%)
- Other means: 18 (0%)
- Worked at home: 164 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
80.4% of residents of Granite township speak English at home.
7.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
11.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (62% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 8,467- In family households: 7,701 (1,947 male householders, 319 female householders)
1,970 spouses, 3,032 children (2,740 natural, 96 adopted, 196 stepchildren), 154 grandchildren, 51 brothers or sisters, 36 parents, 93 other relatives, 99 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 766 (287 male householders (224 living alone)), 403 female householders (393 living alone)), 76 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 124 (91 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 936 2-persons, 462 3-persons, 465 4-persons, 212 5-persons, 76 6-persons, 115 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 617 1-person, 61 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
4 married couples with children.
0 single-parent households (0 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 292
| Here: | 23.7% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
| Here: | 4.9% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
| Here: | 17.4% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |