Jefferson township, Grundy County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
Jefferson township: | 2.1% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
79% of Jefferson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1365
- Northeast: 31
- Midwest: 74
- South: 167
- West: 26
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 573
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 22
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 12
- Mobile homes: 72
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,000
Housing units in Jefferson township with a mortgage: 236 (43 second mortgage, 33 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 174
- Construction (23%)
- Wood products (15%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (8%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (31%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (9%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (8%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (7%)
- Construction (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Carpenters (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Postsecondary teachers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (9%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (8%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jefferson township:
- Italian (16.9%)
- German (12.1%)
- Irish (11.8%)
- English (9.2%)
- Polish (8.9%)
- United States or American (8.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (56%)
- Yugoslavia (22%)
- Chile (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 623 (84%)
- Carpooled: 79 (11%)
- Ferryboat: 8 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 12 (2%)
- Worked at home: 19 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (42%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Coal or coke (1%)
96.5% of residents of Jefferson township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,675- In family households: 1,478 (393 male householders, 87 female householders)
381 spouses, 540 children (499 natural, 9 adopted, 32 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 10 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 197 (94 male householders (74 living alone)), 65 female householders (59 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 220 2-persons, 113 3-persons, 104 4-persons, 27 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 133 1-person, 20 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 4 5-persons,
139 married couples with children.
20 single-parent households (4 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
Here: | 1.1% |
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: 15
Here: | 46.9% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |