Murray township, Marshall County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Murray township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
70% of Murray township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 553
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 83
- South: 21
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 257
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 2
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Murray township with a mortgage: 60 (0 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 105
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (21%)
- Construction (13%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Health care (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (4%)
- Private households (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Murray township:
- German (72.4%)
- English (9.2%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- Irish (2.2%)
- Czech (2.0%)
- Swedish (1.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 202 (65%)
- Carpooled: 47 (15%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 21 (7%)
- Other means: 7 (2%)
- Worked at home: 30 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
97.4% of residents of Murray township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 670- In family households: 602 (171 male householders, 17 female householders)
158 spouses, 243 children (226 natural, 4 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 4 other relatives, 1 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 68 (34 male householders (32 living alone)), 30 female householders (28 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 91 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 30 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 60 1-person, 4 2-persons,
165 married couples with children.
19 single-parent households (5 men, 14 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 38
| Here: | 41.8% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 22.2% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |