Arnold township, Jefferson County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Arnold township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
62% of Arnold township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 77% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 16313
- Northeast: 261
- Midwest: 1468
- South: 1476
- West: 301
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $89,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
235 people in nursing homes
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,889
- One, attached: 360
- Two: 69
- 3 or 4: 312
- 5 to 9: 174
- 10 to 19: 257
- 20 to 49: 131
- 50 or more: 36
- Mobile homes: 686
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Arnold township with a mortgage: 3,921 (472 second mortgage, 527 home equity loan, 14 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,617
- Construction (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Health care (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Arnold township:
- German (36.4%)
- United States or American (14.3%)
- Irish (11.1%)
- English (7.1%)
- Italian (6.1%)
- French (except Basque) (5.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (19%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (12%)
- Philippines (12%)
- Mexico (12%)
- Canada (11%)
- Ukraine (9%)
- Russia (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,987 (87%)
- Carpooled: 1,089 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 30 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 51 (0%)
- Other means: 35 (0%)
- Worked at home: 154 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
235 people in nursing homes
3 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.2% of residents of Arnold township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 19,841- In family households: 17,652 (4,420 male householders, 1,201 female householders)
4,450 spouses, 6,576 children (5,944 natural, 205 adopted, 427 stepchildren), 355 grandchildren, 71 brothers or sisters, 72 parents, 221 other relatives, 286 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,189 (803 male householders (676 living alone)), 1,100 female householders (996 living alone)), 286 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 239 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 2,203 2-persons, 1,489 3-persons, 1,181 4-persons, 525 5-persons, 174 6-persons, 49 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,672 1-person, 204 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 9 4-persons,
3,639 married couples with children.
989 single-parent households (274 men, 715 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 302
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 116
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 139
| Here: | 17.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |