Dent township, Iron County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Dent township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
59% of Dent 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, 84% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1182
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 114
- South: 50
- West: 62
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
40 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 407
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 28
- 10 to 19: 2
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 157
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,400
Housing units in Dent township with a mortgage: 138 (14 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 143
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (31%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Recyclable material merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Extraction workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (14%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dent township:
- United States or American (28.0%)
- German (18.3%)
- Irish (16.2%)
- English (11.1%)
- French (except Basque) (5.4%)
- Italian (2.1%)
- Dutch (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ireland (29%)
- Canada (29%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (21%)
- Russia (21%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 477 (81%)
- Carpooled: 74 (13%)
- Walked: 20 (3%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 9 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Wood (30%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
40 people in nursing homes
98.5% of residents of Dent township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,390- In family households: 1,232 (340 male householders, 61 female householders)
346 spouses, 432 children (368 natural, 15 adopted, 49 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 16 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 158 (68 male householders (61 living alone)), 71 female householders (59 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 41 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 194 2-persons, 69 3-persons, 88 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 120 1-person, 19 2-persons,
275 married couples with children.
83 single-parent households (19 men, 64 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 8.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |