Rock Creek township, Coffey County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Rock Creek township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
54% of Rock 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, 64% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 695
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 131
- South: 109
- West: 58
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $35,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
45 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 336
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 83
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,400
Housing units in Rock Creek township with a mortgage: 99 (2 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 90
- Utilities (15%)
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Educational services (25%)
- Health care (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Plant and system operators (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (12%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Creek township:
- German (29.7%)
- United States or American (12.0%)
- Irish (11.9%)
- English (11.6%)
- Dutch (5.7%)
- Scottish (4.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (75%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 375 (76%)
- Carpooled: 68 (14%)
- Subway or elevated: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 41 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
45 people in nursing homes
98.0% of residents of Rock Creek township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (73% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 967- In family households: 831 (247 male householders, 26 female householders)
237 spouses, 297 children (290 natural, 1 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 4 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 136 (31 male householders (27 living alone)), 91 female householders (79 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 46 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 122 2-persons, 48 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 106 1-person, 14 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
216 married couples with children.
38 single-parent households (15 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 29.2% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |