Galena township, Jasper County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Galena township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
49% of Galena township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 32% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 14855
- Northeast: 648
- Midwest: 3745
- South: 3123
- West: 1856
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Galena township, Missouri:
- 124 people in nursing homes
- 69 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 55 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 10 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,604
- One, attached: 235
- Two: 650
- 3 or 4: 615
- 5 to 9: 217
- 10 to 19: 124
- 20 to 49: 181
- 50 or more: 101
- Mobile homes: 597
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,700
Housing units in Galena township with a mortgage: 3,580 (341 second mortgage, 281 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,927
- Construction (10%)
- Health care (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Food (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Galena township:
- German (20.4%)
- United States or American (19.8%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- English (10.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- Germany (15%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- France (4%)
- Hungary (4%)
- Asia, n.e.c. (4%)
- India (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,212 (82%)
- Carpooled: 1,362 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 24 (0%)
- Taxi: 11 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 11 (0%)
- Bicycle: 41 (0%)
- Walked: 208 (2%)
- Other means: 81 (1%)
- Worked at home: 266 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Galena township, Missouri:
- 124 people in nursing homes
- 69 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 55 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 12 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 10 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in religious group quarters
95.9% of residents of Galena township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 24,475- In family households: 20,225 (4,942 male householders, 1,629 female householders)
5,030 spouses, 7,327 children (6,412 natural, 250 adopted, 665 stepchildren), 329 grandchildren, 103 brothers or sisters, 49 parents, 221 other relatives, 595 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,250 (1,672 male householders (1,325 living alone)), 1,803 female householders (1,573 living alone)), 775 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 287 (153 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,813 2-persons, 1,586 3-persons, 1,294 4-persons, 569 5-persons, 217 6-persons, 92 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,898 1-person, 468 2-persons, 70 3-persons, 39 4-persons,
4,039 married couples with children.
1,722 single-parent households (421 men, 1,301 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 253
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 77
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 103
| Here: | 11.4% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |