Jefferson township, Monroe County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (71% naturalized citizens)
| Jefferson township: | 5.6% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
65% of Jefferson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5224
- Northeast: 75
- Midwest: 79
- South: 442
- West: 55
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $105,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
9 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,300
- Two: 7
- 5 to 9: 8
- Mobile homes: 1,035
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,500
Housing units in Jefferson township with a mortgage: 598 (30 second mortgage, 64 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 225
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (10%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Motor vehicles, parts and supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (14%)
- Machinery (13%)
- U. S. Postal service (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (12%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jefferson township:
- United States or American (44.9%)
- German (19.3%)
- English (11.4%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- Welsh (1.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.0%)
- Dutch (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (42%)
- United Kingdom (29%)
- Japan (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,063 (83%)
- Carpooled: 348 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (1%)
- Other means: 26 (1%)
- Worked at home: 16 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (45%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (1%)
9 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
98.7% of residents of Jefferson township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 31% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (32% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,903- In family households: 5,342 (1,298 male householders, 358 female householders)
1,387 spouses, 2,014 children (1,877 natural, 16 adopted, 121 stepchildren), 79 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 21 other relatives, 136 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 561 (258 male householders (208 living alone)), 220 female householders (191 living alone)), 83 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 550 2-persons, 454 3-persons, 407 4-persons, 169 5-persons, 62 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 399 1-person, 71 2-persons, 8 3-persons,
62 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (3 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 0.6% |
| 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: 37
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |