Meade Center township, Meade County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (17% naturalized citizens)
Meade Center township: | 4.0% |
Whole state: | 5.0% |
58% of Meade Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1313
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 126
- South: 280
- West: 130
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $26,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Meade Center township, Kansas:
- 43 people in nursing homes
- 31 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 5 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 5 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 763
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 57
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,800
Housing units in Meade Center township with a mortgage: 186 (15 second mortgage, 12 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 305
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Construction (16%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (29%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Meade Center township:
- German (34.4%)
- United States or American (15.2%)
- English (12.6%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (59%)
- Romania (10%)
- Canada (10%)
- Germany (6%)
- Japan (4%)
- Other South Eastern Asia (4%)
- Thailand (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 691 (81%)
- Carpooled: 77 (9%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 36 (4%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (80%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Meade Center township, Kansas:
- 43 people in nursing homes
- 31 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 5 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 5 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
91.6% of residents of Meade Center township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
4.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,879- In family households: 1,668 (484 male householders, 62 female householders)
475 spouses, 590 children (533 natural, 14 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 4 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 211 (76 male householders (74 living alone)), 129 female householders (127 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 79 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 266 2-persons, 102 3-persons, 93 4-persons, 57 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 201 1-person, 4 2-persons,
458 married couples with children.
49 single-parent households (15 men, 34 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
Here: | 9.3% |
Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 1.4% |
Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 11.9% |
Kansas: | 13.8% |