Scranton township, Osage County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Scranton township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
53% of Scranton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1021
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 102
- South: 55
- West: 79
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 361
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 13
- Mobile homes: 119
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,000
Housing units in Scranton township with a mortgage: 141 (19 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 63
- Construction (24%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Public administration (13%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (13%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Child care workers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Scranton township:
- German (26.2%)
- United States or American (24.3%)
- English (11.2%)
- Scottish (7.2%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.7%)
- Italian (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Taiwan (50%)
- Laos (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 453 (81%)
- Carpooled: 74 (13%)
- Bicycle: 9 (2%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 9 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (39%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.9% of residents of Scranton township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 43% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,278- In family households: 1,112 (292 male householders, 52 female householders)
279 spouses, 429 children (372 natural, 24 adopted, 33 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 4 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 166 (75 male householders (57 living alone)), 69 female householders (68 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 146 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 76 4-persons, 40 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 17 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
246 married couples with children.
92 single-parent households (44 men, 48 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 5.6% |
| 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: 4
| Here: | 15.4% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |