Big River township, Jefferson County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (56% naturalized citizens)
| Big River township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
56% of Big River township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5106
- Northeast: 101
- Midwest: 489
- South: 437
- West: 121
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $57,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,962
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 6
- Mobile homes: 514
Median worth of mobile homes: $61,100
Housing units in Big River township with a mortgage: 864 (57 second mortgage, 88 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 351
- Construction (19%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big River township:
- German (38.2%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- United States or American (8.7%)
- English (7.2%)
- French (except Basque) (6.5%)
- Italian (4.0%)
- Polish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (43%)
- Other Eastern Europe (17%)
- Canada (10%)
- Japan (6%)
- Mexico (6%)
- Ukraine (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,182 (78%)
- Carpooled: 468 (17%)
- Walked: 43 (2%)
- Other means: 26 (1%)
- Worked at home: 71 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (62%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Wood (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Utility gas (1%)
96.6% of residents of Big River township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (31% speak English very well, 69% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (29% speak English very well, 71% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,343- In family households: 5,780 (1,514 male householders, 265 female householders)
1,509 spouses, 2,115 children (1,921 natural, 31 adopted, 163 stepchildren), 122 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 57 other relatives, 144 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 563 (259 male householders (206 living alone)), 203 female householders (177 living alone)), 101 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 679 2-persons, 394 3-persons, 427 4-persons, 166 5-persons, 60 6-persons, 53 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 383 1-person, 67 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
1,319 married couples with children.
308 single-parent households (100 men, 208 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 51
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 28
| Here: | 5.8% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
| Here: | 22.5% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |