High Prairie township, Leavenworth County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (68% naturalized citizens)
| High Prairie township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
62% of High Prairie 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, 33% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1012
- Northeast: 66
- Midwest: 381
- South: 129
- West: 112
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 663
- One, attached: 7
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in High Prairie township with a mortgage: 262 (34 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 78
- Construction (16%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (15%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (13%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in High Prairie township:
- German (25.9%)
- Irish (16.2%)
- English (15.1%)
- United States or American (9.1%)
- Polish (8.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (55%)
- India (30%)
- Korea (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 793 (81%)
- Carpooled: 122 (12%)
- Bicycle: 11 (1%)
- Walked: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (72%)
- Utility gas (15%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
96.9% of residents of High Prairie township speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,769- In family households: 1,679 (523 male householders, 51 female householders)
568 spouses, 434 children (321 natural, 54 adopted, 59 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 40 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 90 (40 male householders (34 living alone)), 45 female householders (45 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 278 2-persons, 132 3-persons, 103 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 18 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 79 1-person, 6 2-persons,
341 married couples with children.
53 single-parent households (25 men, 28 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 19.1% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 20.8% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 20.3% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |