Elk River West township, McDonald County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 22 (12% naturalized citizens)
| Elk River West township: | 22.5% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
41% of Elk River West township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 9% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 365
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 181
- South: 723
- West: 235
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $46,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 10.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 480
- One, attached: 56
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 73
- 10 to 19: 24
- Mobile homes: 147
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,100
Housing units in Elk River West township with a mortgage: 111 (0 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 43
- Food (55%)
- Construction (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Food (38%)
- Health care (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (19%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Food processing workers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (22%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Food processing workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Elk River West township:
- United States or American (18.1%)
- German (5.8%)
- Irish (3.2%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- English (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (94%)
- Honduras (2%)
- France (2%)
- Guatemala (1%)
- Germany (0%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 501 (54%)
- Carpooled: 347 (37%)
- Bicycle: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 29 (3%)
- Worked at home: 44 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (39%)
- Utility gas (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Wood (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
63.6% of residents of Elk River West township speak English at home.
35.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (26% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 34% speak English not well, 29% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,988- In family households: 1,703 (407 male householders, 77 female householders)
339 spouses, 624 children (534 natural, 2 adopted, 88 stepchildren), 26 grandchildren, 40 brothers or sisters, 28 parents, 96 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 285 (134 male householders (93 living alone)), 73 female householders (60 living alone)), 78 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 172 2-persons, 110 3-persons, 84 4-persons, 61 5-persons, 43 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 153 1-person, 46 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 5 4-persons, 1 6-persons,
401 married couples with children.
127 single-parent households (42 men, 85 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 2.2% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 22.5% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |