Kaw township, Jackson County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (26% naturalized citizens)
| Kaw township: | 7.8% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Kaw township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 29% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 98771
- Northeast: 4584
- Midwest: 34848
- South: 22455
- West: 6530
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $49,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
People in group quarters in Kaw township, Missouri:
- 1,535 people in nursing homes
- 1,318 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 1,177 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 705 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 524 people in halfway houses
- 392 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 194 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 183 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 182 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 180 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 150 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 143 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 143 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 72 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 61 people in religious group quarters
- 39 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 25 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 19 people in other group homes
- 16 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 13 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 7 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 49,575
- One, attached: 3,116
- Two: 4,446
- 3 or 4: 5,480
- 5 to 9: 7,779
- 10 to 19: 6,082
- 20 to 49: 5,237
- 50 or more: 10,556
- Mobile homes: 207
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 59
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,900
Housing units in Kaw township with a mortgage: 23,090 (2,232 second mortgage, 2,432 home equity loan, 65 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 13,011
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Construction (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kaw township:
- German (11.8%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- English (6.2%)
- United States or American (4.7%)
- Italian (3.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (40%)
- Vietnam (10%)
- Cuba (3%)
- Other Eastern Africa (3%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (3%)
- El Salvador (3%)
- India (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 60,725 (73%)
- Carpooled: 10,258 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5,311 (6%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 32 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 18 (0%)
- Taxi: 162 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 62 (0%)
- Bicycle: 131 (0%)
- Walked: 3,492 (4%)
- Other means: 606 (1%)
- Worked at home: 2,743 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Kaw township, Missouri:
- 1,535 people in nursing homes
- 1,318 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 1,177 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 705 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 524 people in halfway houses
- 392 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 194 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 183 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 182 people in other types of correctional institutions
- 180 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 150 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 143 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 143 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 72 people in residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children
- 61 people in religious group quarters
- 39 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 25 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 19 people in other group homes
- 16 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 13 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 7 people in unknown juvenile institutions
87.1% of residents of Kaw township speak English at home.
7.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (35% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (52% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 175,463- In family households: 125,246 (23,776 male householders, 16,067 female householders)
24,203 spouses, 44,687 children (41,558 natural, 1,272 adopted, 1,857 stepchildren), 5,301 grandchildren, 2,644 brothers or sisters, 1,269 parents, 3,115 other relatives, 4,184 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 50,217 (20,013 male householders (15,727 living alone)), 21,807 female householders (19,015 living alone)), 8,397 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6,953 (3,475 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 17,967 2-persons, 9,307 3-persons, 6,331 4-persons, 3,353 5-persons, 1,734 6-persons, 1,151 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 34,742 1-person, 6,193 2-persons, 621 3-persons, 185 4-persons, 49 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
17,352 married couples with children.
16,061 single-parent households (2,300 men, 13,761 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3,969
| Here: | 21.5% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2,102
| Here: | 23.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3,046
| Here: | 32.5% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |