Howard township, Labette County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 322 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Howard township: | 321.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
53% of Howard township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 22401
- Northeast: 790
- Midwest: 2383
- South: 2256
- West: 710
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $98,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,934
- One, attached: 628
- 3 or 4: 273
- 5 to 9: 772
- 10 to 19: 1,157
- 20 to 49: 496
- 50 or more: 230
- Mobile homes: 967
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,200
Housing units in Howard township with a mortgage: 5,751 (477 second mortgage, 829 home equity loan, 16 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,743
- Construction (22%)
- Machinery (18%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Finance and insurance (21%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Computer and electronic products (12%)
- Food (9%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (18%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Child care workers (16%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Other financial specialists (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Secondary school teachers (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Howard township:
- German (17.7%)
- English (12.7%)
- Irish (11.5%)
- United States or American (9.9%)
- Polish (6.6%)
- French (except Basque) (4.0%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (11%)
- Canada (9%)
- Iran (6%)
- Mexico (6%)
- Greece (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,567 (91%)
- Carpooled: 1,072 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 26 (0%)
- Other means: 36 (0%)
- Worked at home: 267 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (88%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
93.0% of residents of Howard township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other language at home (89% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 29,552- In family households: 25,204 (6,759 male householders, 1,446 female householders)
7,010 spouses, 8,946 children (8,188 natural, 183 adopted, 575 stepchildren), 151 grandchildren, 111 brothers or sisters, 143 parents, 254 other relatives, 384 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,348 (1,744 male householders (1,406 living alone)), 1,823 female householders (1,532 living alone)), 781 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 325 (241 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,497 2-persons, 1,885 3-persons, 1,835 4-persons, 699 5-persons, 264 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,938 1-person, 547 2-persons, 52 3-persons, 21 4-persons, 9 5-persons,
67 married couples with children.
13 single-parent households (5 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 515
| Here: | 14.2% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 212
| Here: | 12.7% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 230
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |