Rockford township, Sedgwick County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (70% naturalized citizens)
| Rockford township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
54% of Rockford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11753
- Northeast: 832
- Midwest: 2789
- South: 2793
- West: 1269
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $84,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Rockford township, Kansas:
- 109 people in nursing homes
- 21 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,080
- One, attached: 426
- Two: 157
- 3 or 4: 70
- 5 to 9: 216
- 10 to 19: 60
- 20 to 49: 183
- 50 or more: 41
- Mobile homes: 132
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,000
Housing units in Rockford township with a mortgage: 3,905 (565 second mortgage, 344 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,279
- Transportation equipment (31%)
- Construction (9%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (3%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (15%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Engineers (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rockford township:
- German (24.7%)
- English (14.0%)
- United States or American (13.7%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- Dutch (2.8%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (21%)
- Germany (12%)
- Canada (11%)
- Korea (9%)
- Ireland (9%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Vietnam (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,665 (88%)
- Carpooled: 845 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 22 (0%)
- Walked: 58 (1%)
- Worked at home: 285 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
People in group quarters in Rockford township, Kansas:
- 109 people in nursing homes
- 21 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 9 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.8% of residents of Rockford township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 19,880- In family households: 18,247 (4,840 male householders, 846 female householders)
4,911 spouses, 7,025 children (6,433 natural, 204 adopted, 388 stepchildren), 296 grandchildren, 38 brothers or sisters, 45 parents, 91 other relatives, 155 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,633 (578 male householders (487 living alone)), 873 female householders (826 living alone)), 182 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 139 (109 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,314 2-persons, 1,236 3-persons, 1,227 4-persons, 607 5-persons, 221 6-persons, 81 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,313 1-person, 115 2-persons, 23 4-persons,
4,844 married couples with children.
978 single-parent households (284 men, 694 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 342
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 74
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 162
| Here: | 16.2% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |