Davis township, Lafayette County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Davis township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
54% of Davis township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% 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: 3680
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 566
- South: 160
- West: 117
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $67,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
273 people in nursing homes
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,532
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 92
- 3 or 4: 102
- 5 to 9: 72
- 10 to 19: 16
- Mobile homes: 127
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Davis township with a mortgage: 549 (44 second mortgage, 36 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 398
- Construction (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Davis township:
- German (42.3%)
- United States or American (14.3%)
- English (10.7%)
- Irish (10.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- Italian (2.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (72%)
- Micronesia (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,647 (76%)
- Carpooled: 309 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 63 (3%)
- Other means: 31 (1%)
- Worked at home: 98 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (1%)
273 people in nursing homes
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.7% of residents of Davis township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,279- In family households: 3,675 (1,012 male householders, 224 female householders)
994 spouses, 1,242 children (1,158 natural, 24 adopted, 60 stepchildren), 64 grandchildren, 25 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 46 other relatives, 56 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 604 (247 male householders (205 living alone)), 310 female householders (308 living alone)), 47 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 291 (283 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 546 2-persons, 317 3-persons, 239 4-persons, 93 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 513 1-person, 44 2-persons,
815 married couples with children.
299 single-parent households (64 men, 235 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 63
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 13.4% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |