Kechi township, Sedgwick County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Kechi township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
52% of Kechi township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5670
- Northeast: 129
- Midwest: 691
- South: 830
- West: 346
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $46,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,416
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 26
- 3 or 4: 5
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 583
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,100
Housing units in Kechi township with a mortgage: 1,394 (152 second mortgage, 133 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 419
- Transportation equipment (27%)
- Construction (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kechi township:
- German (24.3%)
- United States or American (16.5%)
- English (10.6%)
- Irish (9.2%)
- European (2.5%)
- Polish (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (19%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Mexico (17%)
- Argentina (13%)
- Pakistan (9%)
- Vietnam (7%)
- Japan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,492 (87%)
- Carpooled: 345 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Bicycle: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 41 (1%)
- Other means: 27 (1%)
- Worked at home: 106 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
94.7% of residents of Kechi township speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 1% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (68% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,909- In family households: 7,148 (1,805 male householders, 425 female householders)
1,774 spouses, 2,836 children (2,506 natural, 135 adopted, 195 stepchildren), 84 grandchildren, 23 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 58 other relatives, 111 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 761 (362 male householders (300 living alone)), 258 female householders (219 living alone)), 141 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 916 2-persons, 476 3-persons, 516 4-persons, 189 5-persons, 89 6-persons, 44 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 519 1-person, 77 2-persons, 24 3-persons,
1,887 married couples with children.
438 single-parent households (140 men, 298 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 170
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 54
| Here: | 11.6% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 36
| Here: | 10.5% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |