Highland township, Lewis County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Highland township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
63% of Highland 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, 38% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 574
- Northeast: 1
- Midwest: 937
- South: 55
- West: 49
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 502
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 25
- 20 to 49: 3
- 50 or more: 6
- Mobile homes: 172
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,800
Housing units in Highland township with a mortgage: 159 (13 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 59
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Highland township:
- German (37.8%)
- United States or American (20.1%)
- English (12.2%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (71%)
- Canada (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 652 (79%)
- Carpooled: 101 (12%)
- Walked: 21 (3%)
- Other means: 17 (2%)
- Worked at home: 32 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (54%)
- Utility gas (22%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (9%)
97.5% of residents of Highland township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,629- In family households: 1,470 (418 male householders, 85 female householders)
414 spouses, 494 children (457 natural, 5 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 159 (41 male householders (28 living alone)), 90 female householders (74 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 246 2-persons, 112 3-persons, 91 4-persons, 46 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 102 1-person, 29 2-persons,
320 married couples with children.
80 single-parent households (25 men, 55 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 10.4% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |