Towanda township, Butler County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (29% naturalized citizens)
| Towanda township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
52% of Towanda township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2155
- Northeast: 18
- Midwest: 137
- South: 294
- West: 100
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
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: 776
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 4
- 50 or more: 1
- Mobile homes: 257
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,000
Housing units in Towanda township with a mortgage: 326 (24 second mortgage, 32 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 133
- Construction (17%)
- Transportation equipment (16%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Petroleum and coal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (14%)
- Transportation equipment (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Towanda township:
- German (31.7%)
- United States or American (12.5%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- English (10.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.0%)
- French (except Basque) (3.8%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (66%)
- France (20%)
- Germany (3%)
- Japan (3%)
- El Salvador (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,129 (82%)
- Carpooled: 192 (14%)
- Walked: 22 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 25 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (1%)
97.6% of residents of Towanda township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (10% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 55% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,773- In family households: 2,592 (671 male householders, 109 female householders)
706 spouses, 921 children (777 natural, 19 adopted, 125 stepchildren), 81 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 18 other relatives, 70 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 181 (84 male householders (83 living alone)), 88 female householders (82 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 314 2-persons, 164 3-persons, 152 4-persons, 99 5-persons, 46 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 165 1-person, 7 2-persons,
664 married couples with children.
117 single-parent households (33 men, 84 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 60
| Here: | 14.5% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 8.2% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |