Byrd township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Byrd township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Byrd township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 12255
- Northeast: 144
- Midwest: 1360
- South: 1050
- West: 479
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $136,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
140 people in nursing homes
55 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,842
- One, attached: 118
- Two: 214
- 3 or 4: 422
- 5 to 9: 132
- 10 to 19: 126
- 20 to 49: 13
- 50 or more: 42
- Mobile homes: 498
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,300
Housing units in Byrd township with a mortgage: 2,677 (186 second mortgage, 510 home equity loan, 13 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,226
- Construction (12%)
- Paper (10%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Byrd township:
- German (43.3%)
- United States or American (21.9%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- English (6.2%)
- French (except Basque) (3.0%)
- Italian (1.9%)
- Polish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (20%)
- Germany (12%)
- India (10%)
- Canada (10%)
- Nicaragua (8%)
- South Africa (7%)
- Korea (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,816 (86%)
- Carpooled: 733 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 58 (1%)
- Other means: 43 (1%)
- Worked at home: 273 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Electricity (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (1%)
140 people in nursing homes
55 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
97.3% of residents of Byrd township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 15,323- In family households: 13,522 (3,652 male householders, 827 female householders)
3,760 spouses, 4,730 children (4,181 natural, 142 adopted, 407 stepchildren), 165 grandchildren, 137 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 83 other relatives, 161 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,801 (575 male householders (456 living alone)), 977 female householders (922 living alone)), 249 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 194 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,860 2-persons, 1,123 3-persons, 1,005 4-persons, 373 5-persons, 93 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,378 1-person, 136 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 18 4-persons, 2 6-persons,
3,209 married couples with children.
828 single-parent households (149 men, 679 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 309
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 29
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 46
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |