Valley township, Osborne County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 22 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Valley township: | 21.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
66% of Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1254
- Northeast: 14
- Midwest: 172
- South: 93
- West: 38
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $562,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 432
- One, attached: 2
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 126
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,400
Housing units in Valley township with a mortgage: 98 (6 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 51
- Construction (19%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Cashiers (9%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Valley township:
- German (32.6%)
- United States or American (22.5%)
- English (7.4%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- Polish (3.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (3.4%)
- French Canadian (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (63%)
- United Kingdom (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 431 (66%)
- Carpooled: 80 (12%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (5%)
- Other means: 13 (2%)
- Worked at home: 88 (14%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (65%)
- Wood (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
81.6% of residents of Valley township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 63% speak English well).
17.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (52% speak English very well, 38% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,580- In family households: 1,461 (311 male householders, 74 female householders)
300 spouses, 681 children (640 natural, 13 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 20 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 119 (57 male householders (40 living alone)), 38 female householders (38 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 117 2-persons, 86 3-persons, 84 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 78 1-person, 13 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 6-persons,
9 married couples with children.
0 single-parent households (0 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 87
| Here: | 33.6% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.7% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |