Center township, Knox County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
53% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 63% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 902
- Northeast: 27
- Midwest: 200
- South: 28
- West: 33
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $20,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 486
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 48
- 5 to 9: 40
- 10 to 19: 6
- 20 to 49: 3
- Mobile homes: 52
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,300
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 118 (7 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 189
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (35.7%)
- German (24.7%)
- English (12.7%)
- Irish (9.2%)
- Polish (1.5%)
- French (except Basque) (1.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (33%)
- Bolivia (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 454 (84%)
- Carpooled: 44 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 27 (5%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 12 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Wood (1%)
28 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
99.0% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,180- In family households: 957 (258 male householders, 79 female householders)
238 spouses, 324 children (304 natural, 10 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 9 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 223 (77 male householders (74 living alone)), 136 female householders (129 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 28 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 191 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 48 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 203 1-person, 10 2-persons,
188 married couples with children.
68 single-parent households (18 men, 50 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 12.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 12.5% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |