Clay township, Greene County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Clay township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
53% of Clay township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5394
- Northeast: 318
- Midwest: 1584
- South: 1162
- West: 579
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $148,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,303
- One, attached: 74
- Two: 40
- 3 or 4: 37
- 5 to 9: 8
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 6
Housing units in Clay township with a mortgage: 2,146 (277 second mortgage, 310 home equity loan, 12 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 704
- Health care (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Physicians and surgeons (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Postsecondary teachers (3%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clay township:
- German (24.2%)
- English (18.7%)
- United States or American (17.5%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- Italian (2.6%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Taiwan (45%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (11%)
- Germany (9%)
- Vietnam (9%)
- Lebanon (9%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Canada (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,287 (88%)
- Carpooled: 357 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (0%)
- Taxi: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 25 (1%)
- Other means: 7 (0%)
- Worked at home: 179 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (1%)
96.9% of residents of Clay township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 9,184- In family households: 8,562 (2,564 male householders, 279 female householders)
2,769 spouses, 2,828 children (2,648 natural, 80 adopted, 100 stepchildren), 35 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 27 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 622 (213 male householders (163 living alone)), 307 female householders (272 living alone)), 102 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 1,318 2-persons, 584 3-persons, 591 4-persons, 283 5-persons, 57 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 435 1-person, 68 2-persons, 17 3-persons,
2,080 married couples with children.
210 single-parent households (53 men, 157 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 314
| Here: | 25.7% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 123
| Here: | 19.7% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 105
| Here: | 23.8% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |