Clay township, Lafayette County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Clay township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
56% of Clay township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% 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: 3825
- Northeast: 34
- Midwest: 715
- South: 303
- West: 266
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
36 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,293
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 55
- 3 or 4: 226
- 5 to 9: 44
- 20 to 49: 17
- Mobile homes: 566
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,400
Housing units in Clay township with a mortgage: 409 (23 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 282
- Construction (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clay township:
- German (34.3%)
- United States or American (20.8%)
- Irish (10.4%)
- English (9.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- European (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (57%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (14%)
- Germany (10%)
- Mexico (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,945 (79%)
- Carpooled: 416 (17%)
- Walked: 33 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 74 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (43%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
36 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
97.9% of residents of Clay township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (31% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 56% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,153- In family households: 4,433 (1,179 male householders, 315 female householders)
1,260 spouses, 1,512 children (1,374 natural, 27 adopted, 111 stepchildren), 28 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 29 other relatives, 98 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 720 (296 male householders (195 living alone)), 296 female householders (284 living alone)), 128 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 35 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 718 2-persons, 339 3-persons, 257 4-persons, 135 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 479 1-person, 102 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
918 married couples with children.
302 single-parent households (102 men, 200 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 13
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 13.7% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |