Spring Valley township, Cherokee County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Spring Valley township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
69% of Spring Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 81% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 440
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 356
- South: 149
- West: 63
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 321
- One, attached: 9
- Mobile homes: 96
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Spring Valley township with a mortgage: 54 (5 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 50
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Repair and maintenance (9%)
- Petroleum and coal products (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (15%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Printing workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Customer service representatives (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring Valley township:
- German (29.4%)
- United States or American (20.7%)
- Irish (15.6%)
- English (11.4%)
- Italian (3.6%)
- Polish (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 396 (84%)
- Carpooled: 53 (11%)
- Worked at home: 20 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Utility gas (21%)
- Wood (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
98.0% of residents of Spring Valley township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,029- In family households: 871 (273 male householders, 11 female householders)
286 spouses, 286 children (271 natural, 15 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 158 (67 male householders (53 living alone)), 67 female householders (47 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 143 2-persons, 64 3-persons, 40 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 100 1-person, 34 2-persons,
199 married couples with children.
28 single-parent households (19 men, 9 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): 6
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |