Mill Creek township, Pottawatomie County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Mill Creek township: | 7.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
63% of Mill Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% 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: 1535
- Northeast: 111
- Midwest: 255
- South: 138
- West: 32
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Mill Creek township, Kansas:
- 41 people in nursing homes
- 19 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 19 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,604
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 83
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $61,300
Housing units in Mill Creek township with a mortgage: 276 (20 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 222
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Construction (11%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (37%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mill Creek township:
- German (17.6%)
- English (16.1%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- Norwegian (7.9%)
- United States or American (4.3%)
- Swedish (4.3%)
- Polish (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (51%)
- Canada (19%)
- Germany (5%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (4%)
- Ireland (3%)
- Other Northern Europe (3%)
- Netherlands (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 684 (79%)
- Carpooled: 63 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 45 (5%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 72 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (10%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Mill Creek township, Kansas:
- 41 people in nursing homes
- 19 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 19 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
91.2% of residents of Mill Creek township speak English at home.
5.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,078- In family households: 1,779 (530 male householders, 110 female householders)
581 spouses, 499 children (444 natural, 25 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 9 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 299 (142 male householders (126 living alone)), 118 female householders (110 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 76 (57 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 397 2-persons, 91 3-persons, 91 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 236 1-person, 21 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 1 4-persons,
199 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (7 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |