Tonganoxie township, Leavenworth County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Tonganoxie township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
54% of Tonganoxie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3370
- Northeast: 84
- Midwest: 816
- South: 285
- West: 152
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $86,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
79 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,495
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 66
- 3 or 4: 89
- 5 to 9: 19
- 10 to 19: 18
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 105
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,700
Housing units in Tonganoxie township with a mortgage: 561 (70 second mortgage, 76 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 242
- Construction (19%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Printing and related support activities (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (3%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tonganoxie township:
- German (28.3%)
- United States or American (17.5%)
- Irish (14.5%)
- English (8.7%)
- French (except Basque) (3.0%)
- Swedish (2.0%)
- Polish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (48%)
- Korea (14%)
- Venezuela (13%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Canada (8%)
- Germany (5%)
- Vietnam (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,038 (87%)
- Carpooled: 251 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 47 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (48%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (5%)
79 people in nursing homes
95.4% of residents of Tonganoxie township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 37% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,773- In family households: 4,310 (1,141 male householders, 204 female householders)
1,122 spouses, 1,660 children (1,489 natural, 64 adopted, 107 stepchildren), 76 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 22 other relatives, 47 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 463 (195 male householders (146 living alone)), 193 female householders (191 living alone)), 75 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 79 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 508 2-persons, 308 3-persons, 315 4-persons, 150 5-persons, 46 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 337 1-person, 44 2-persons, 4 4-persons, 3 6-persons,
1,046 married couples with children.
281 single-parent households (83 men, 198 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 2.5% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |