Silver Lake township, Shawnee County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Silver Lake township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
61% of Silver Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1587
- Northeast: 78
- Midwest: 205
- South: 81
- West: 71
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $76,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 642
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 33
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 35
- 10 to 19: 28
- 20 to 49: 9
- Mobile homes: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $77,100
Housing units in Silver Lake township with a mortgage: 349 (27 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 130
- Construction (11%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (10%)
- Utilities (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health care (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Health care (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Lake township:
- German (39.0%)
- United States or American (14.9%)
- English (8.7%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- Swedish (3.2%)
- Scottish (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (50%)
- Korea (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 905 (85%)
- Carpooled: 129 (12%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 19 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
98.5% of residents of Silver Lake township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,032- In family households: 1,880 (514 male householders, 105 female householders)
511 spouses, 698 children (647 natural, 17 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 13 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 152 (58 male householders (51 living alone)), 74 female householders (67 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 293 2-persons, 103 3-persons, 136 4-persons, 61 5-persons, 26 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 118 1-person, 10 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
432 married couples with children.
109 single-parent households (35 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 0.7% |
| 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: 6
| Here: | 9.7% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |