Dry Creek township, Howell County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Dry Creek township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
53% of Dry Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1070
- Northeast: 95
- Midwest: 160
- South: 211
- West: 147
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 489
- Two: 4
- Mobile homes: 191
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,400
Housing units in Dry Creek township with a mortgage: 129 (23 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 76
- Construction (20%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Wood products (10%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Woodworkers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dry Creek township:
- United States or American (36.6%)
- German (12.4%)
- Irish (9.4%)
- English (4.6%)
- French (except Basque) (4.4%)
- Scottish (4.2%)
- Italian (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 633 (82%)
- Carpooled: 85 (11%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 47 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (56%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (17%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
99.0% of residents of Dry Creek township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,695- In family households: 1,566 (472 male householders, 40 female householders)
468 spouses, 464 children (383 natural, 38 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 8 other relatives, 101 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 129 (58 male householders (55 living alone)), 63 female householders (58 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 225 2-persons, 128 3-persons, 94 4-persons, 37 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 113 1-person, 8 2-persons,
310 married couples with children.
82 single-parent households (34 men, 48 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 2.5% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 43.3% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |