Benton township, Douglas County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (59% naturalized citizens)
| Benton township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Benton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 39% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2607
- Northeast: 30
- Midwest: 609
- South: 480
- West: 411
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $31,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
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
People in group quarters in Benton township, Missouri:
- 32 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,489
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 86
- 3 or 4: 88
- 5 to 9: 17
- 10 to 19: 32
- 20 to 49: 51
- 50 or more: 8
- Mobile homes: 212
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,700
Housing units in Benton township with a mortgage: 437 (26 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 409
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (10%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Electricians (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Benton township:
- United States or American (36.0%)
- German (11.2%)
- English (11.2%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.2%)
- Dutch (3.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (41%)
- Netherlands (31%)
- Poland (18%)
- Japan (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,248 (80%)
- Carpooled: 206 (13%)
- Walked: 36 (2%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 69 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (41%)
- Utility gas (29%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Wood (12%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Benton township, Missouri:
- 32 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 3 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
97.0% of residents of Benton township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 49% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,182- In family households: 3,438 (910 male householders, 238 female householders)
918 spouses, 1,211 children (1,082 natural, 75 adopted, 54 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 28 brothers or sisters, 29 parents, 34 other relatives, 52 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 744 (246 male householders (210 living alone)), 429 female householders (406 living alone)), 69 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 42 (4 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 553 2-persons, 254 3-persons, 179 4-persons, 119 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 616 1-person, 48 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
696 married couples with children.
266 single-parent households (74 men, 192 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 61
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 30
| Here: | 12.9% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
| Here: | 13.7% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |