Highland township, Harvey County, Kansas (KS) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Highland township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.0% |
65% of Highland township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 13% lived in Kansas.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 400
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 71
- South: 18
- West: 8
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 141
- One, attached: 4
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,000
Housing units in Highland township with a mortgage: 31 (7 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 44
- Construction (25%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Petroleum and coal products (6%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Educational services (28%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (14%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (7%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (7%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Electricians (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (14%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (12%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (12%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Highland township:
- German (63.3%)
- Scottish (7.7%)
- United States or American (6.4%)
- Swiss (5.4%)
- Austrian (2.3%)
- Swedish (2.3%)
- Czechoslovakian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 229 (87%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (3%)
- Worked at home: 21 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Utility gas (18%)
- Wood (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
93.5% of residents of Highland township speak English at home.
6.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 503- In family households: 463 (131 male householders, 19 female householders)
134 spouses, 171 children (139 natural, 8 adopted, 24 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 40 (20 male householders (20 living alone)), 20 female householders (20 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 73 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 14 4-persons, 29 5-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 40 1-person,
106 married couples with children.
4 single-parent households (2 men, 2 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 22.2% |
| 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% |