Wheatland township, Ford County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (21% naturalized citizens)
| Wheatland township: | 8.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
79% of Wheatland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 154
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 0
- South: 0
- West: 3
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 1.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 79
Housing units in Wheatland township with a mortgage: 2 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 17
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (61%)
- Construction (11%)
- Food (7%)
- Farm product raw materials merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Health care (43%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (10%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Alcoholic beverages merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (7%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (52%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (9%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (27%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Art and design workers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other financial specialists (7%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheatland township:
- German (65.1%)
- United States or American (4.7%)
- Czechoslovakian (2.7%)
- English (2.7%)
- Irish (2.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
- Austrian (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 61 (73%)
- Carpooled: 10 (12%)
- Walked: 7 (8%)
- Worked at home: 6 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (86%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
87.4% of residents of Wheatland township speak English at home.
12.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 171- In family households: 153 (50 male householders, 3 female householders)
48 spouses, 52 children (52 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 18 (11 male householders (11 living alone)), 7 female householders (7 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 30 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 18 1-person,
32 married couples with children.
7 single-parent households (1 men, 6 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 36.4% |
| Kansas: | 11.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 7.9% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Kansas: | 13.8% |