Montezuma township, Gray County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 12 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Montezuma township: | 12.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
57% of Montezuma township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1118
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 90
- South: 102
- West: 69
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
109 people in nursing homes
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 472
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,800
Housing units in Montezuma township with a mortgage: 110 (6 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 177
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (29%)
- Construction (16%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (27%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Private households (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (19%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Montezuma township:
- German (35.6%)
- Dutch (13.9%)
- United States or American (12.8%)
- Polish (9.0%)
- Russian (2.5%)
- English (2.0%)
- European (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (97%)
- Canada (2%)
- Germany (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 416 (68%)
- Carpooled: 87 (14%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 37 (6%)
- Worked at home: 69 (11%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Wood (1%)
109 people in nursing homes
4 people in other nonhousehold living situations
80.7% of residents of Montezuma township speak English at home.
9.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (37% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 20% don't speak English at all).
9.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,486- In family households: 1,360 (372 male householders, 33 female householders)
353 spouses, 540 children (494 natural, 24 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 20 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 126 (50 male householders (50 living alone)), 74 female householders (72 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 113 (101 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 157 2-persons, 81 3-persons, 69 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 36 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 122 1-person, 2 2-persons,
451 married couples with children.
34 single-parent households (10 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 79
| Here: | 39.1% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |