Canaan township, Gasconade County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (86% naturalized citizens)
| Canaan township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
56% of Canaan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4138
- Northeast: 48
- Midwest: 293
- South: 326
- West: 122
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
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
75 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,627
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 130
- 3 or 4: 102
- 5 to 9: 44
- Mobile homes: 359
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,400
Housing units in Canaan township with a mortgage: 525 (31 second mortgage, 57 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 442
- Construction (16%)
- Printing and related support activities (11%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Printing and related support activities (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Canaan township:
- German (50.7%)
- United States or American (12.9%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- English (9.2%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- Polish (2.6%)
- Czech (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (76%)
- Mexico (14%)
- Philippines (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,547 (75%)
- Carpooled: 404 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (1%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 32 (2%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 58 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Utility gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (8%)
75 people in nursing homes
97.5% of residents of Canaan township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,887- In family households: 4,124 (1,175 male householders, 215 female householders)
1,157 spouses, 1,363 children (1,237 natural, 48 adopted, 78 stepchildren), 49 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 29 other relatives, 95 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 763 (248 male householders (203 living alone)), 399 female householders (366 living alone)), 116 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 76 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 683 2-persons, 288 3-persons, 267 4-persons, 114 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 569 1-person, 59 2-persons, 12 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
911 married couples with children.
301 single-parent households (104 men, 197 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |