Valley Center township, Sedgwick County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Valley Center township: | 2.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
61% of Valley Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2625
- Northeast: 48
- Midwest: 308
- South: 346
- West: 275
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $102,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
88 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,053
- One, attached: 32
- Two: 44
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 165
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,000
Housing units in Valley Center township with a mortgage: 644 (115 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 193
- Transportation equipment (25%)
- Construction (11%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (9%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Valley Center township:
- German (25.4%)
- United States or American (13.7%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- English (9.4%)
- French (except Basque) (6.1%)
- Scottish (4.5%)
- European (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (77%)
- Canada (12%)
- Japan (6%)
- Other Northern Europe (3%)
- France (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,584 (83%)
- Carpooled: 112 (6%)
- Walked: 140 (7%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 65 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
88 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.4% of residents of Valley Center township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (34% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
2.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,618- In family households: 3,325 (895 male householders, 175 female householders)
876 spouses, 1,223 children (1,079 natural, 69 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 86 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 5 other relatives, 60 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 293 (108 male householders (89 living alone)), 149 female householders (149 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 88 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 412 2-persons, 270 3-persons, 275 4-persons, 62 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 238 1-person, 11 2-persons, 8 4-persons,
851 married couples with children.
173 single-parent households (40 men, 133 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 43
| Here: | 30.1% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |