Riverside township, Sedgwick County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Riverside township: | 4.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
56% of Riverside township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 66% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9948
- Northeast: 346
- Midwest: 1575
- South: 2322
- West: 803
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
98 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,496
- One, attached: 127
- Two: 84
- 3 or 4: 25
- 5 to 9: 37
- 10 to 19: 37
- 50 or more: 70
- Mobile homes: 947
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,500
Housing units in Riverside township with a mortgage: 2,528 (368 second mortgage, 162 home equity loan, 21 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 717
- Transportation equipment (30%)
- Construction (11%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Riverside township:
- German (22.9%)
- United States or American (16.8%)
- English (9.6%)
- Irish (9.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (32%)
- Mexico (21%)
- Vietnam (12%)
- Cambodia (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
- Philippines (4%)
- El Salvador (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,357 (85%)
- Carpooled: 746 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 63 (1%)
- Railroad: 7 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 37 (0%)
- Other means: 72 (1%)
- Worked at home: 149 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (81%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
98 people in nursing homes
92.7% of residents of Riverside township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
3.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 15,727- In family households: 14,255 (3,274 male householders, 973 female householders)
3,247 spouses, 5,784 children (5,182 natural, 147 adopted, 455 stepchildren), 278 grandchildren, 127 brothers or sisters, 75 parents, 167 other relatives, 330 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,472 (682 male householders (541 living alone)), 546 female householders (484 living alone)), 244 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 98 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,476 2-persons, 984 3-persons, 950 4-persons, 556 5-persons, 179 6-persons, 102 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,025 1-person, 172 2-persons, 26 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
3,608 married couples with children.
1,110 single-parent households (280 men, 830 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 231
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 60
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 121
| Here: | 23.8% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |