Joplin township, Jasper County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (37% naturalized citizens)
| Joplin township: | 2.1% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
45% of Joplin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 42% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 23031
- Northeast: 620
- Midwest: 5816
- South: 5364
- West: 2883
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Joplin township, Missouri:
- 939 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 256 people in nursing homes
- 92 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 66 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 35 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 22 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 12,963
- One, attached: 444
- Two: 603
- 3 or 4: 677
- 5 to 9: 868
- 10 to 19: 521
- 20 to 49: 97
- 50 or more: 323
- Mobile homes: 981
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,700
Housing units in Joplin township with a mortgage: 4,930 (307 second mortgage, 400 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,713
- Construction (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Joplin township:
- United States or American (21.7%)
- German (18.0%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- English (10.4%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
- European (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- India (9%)
- Canada (7%)
- Other South Central Asia (6%)
- Vietnam (6%)
- Germany (5%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 14,973 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,970 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 34 (0%)
- Taxi: 32 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 24 (0%)
- Bicycle: 16 (0%)
- Walked: 469 (3%)
- Other means: 73 (0%)
- Worked at home: 450 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Joplin township, Missouri:
- 939 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 256 people in nursing homes
- 92 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 66 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 35 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 22 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 10 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.3% of residents of Joplin township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (47% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (46% speak English very well, 54% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 37,319- In family households: 30,307 (7,577 male householders, 2,556 female householders)
7,714 spouses, 10,403 children (9,236 natural, 337 adopted, 830 stepchildren), 554 grandchildren, 232 brothers or sisters, 166 parents, 325 other relatives, 780 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 7,012 (2,407 male householders (1,876 living alone)), 3,452 female householders (2,991 living alone)), 1,153 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,409 (314 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 4,827 2-persons, 2,354 3-persons, 1,832 4-persons, 766 5-persons, 245 6-persons, 109 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 4,867 1-person, 864 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 7 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
5,616 married couples with children.
2,775 single-parent households (528 men, 2,247 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 271
| Here: | 6.7% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 301
| Here: | 16.4% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 841
| Here: | 31.2% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |