Des Moines township, Clark County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Des Moines township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
70% of Des Moines township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 29% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 209
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 582
- South: 31
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $14,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 250
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 21
- 5 to 9: 7
- 20 to 49: 1
- Mobile homes: 126
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,800
Housing units in Des Moines township with a mortgage: 77 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 89
- Truck transportation (14%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Plastics and rubber products (12%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Private households (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Cashiers (13%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Des Moines township:
- German (35.4%)
- United States or American (24.5%)
- Irish (16.5%)
- English (9.5%)
- French (except Basque) (4.2%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
- Polish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (67%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 350 (80%)
- Carpooled: 50 (11%)
- Walked: 21 (5%)
- Other means: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 11 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (46%)
- Utility gas (33%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.4% of residents of Des Moines township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (17% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 67% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 876- In family households: 715 (208 male householders, 38 female householders)
212 spouses, 218 children (187 natural, 5 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 1 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 161 (52 male householders (49 living alone)), 102 female householders (92 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 134 2-persons, 54 3-persons, 30 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 141 1-person, 13 2-persons,
111 married couples with children.
67 single-parent households (35 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 8.6% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |