Lincoln township, Decatur County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 14 (62% naturalized citizens)
| Lincoln township: | 14.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
66% of Lincoln township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 29% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 499
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 494
- South: 25
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 618
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 11
- Mobile homes: 110
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,500
Housing units in Lincoln township with a mortgage: 97 (2 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 93
- Construction (14%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Paper (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lincoln township:
- German (28.0%)
- Polish (14.0%)
- French (except Basque) (9.1%)
- Swedish (8.1%)
- English (4.3%)
- Irish (4.3%)
- United States or American (4.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (34%)
- Canada (24%)
- Russia (17%)
- Korea (17%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 394 (86%)
- Carpooled: 30 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 25 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (55%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (15%)
- Wood (14%)
- Utility gas (13%)
- Electricity (3%)
96.6% of residents of Lincoln township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (62% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,073- In family households: 909 (284 male householders, 32 female householders)
279 spouses, 255 children (220 natural, 13 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 4 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 164 (77 male householders (64 living alone)), 58 female householders (48 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 169 2-persons, 64 3-persons, 50 4-persons, 18 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 112 1-person, 17 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
37 married couples with children.
2 single-parent households (0 men, 2 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |