Kelso township, Scott County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (37% naturalized citizens)
| Kelso township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
58% of Kelso township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8214
- Northeast: 59
- Midwest: 682
- South: 994
- West: 240
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
60 people in nursing homes
19 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,400
- One, attached: 95
- Two: 81
- 3 or 4: 137
- 5 to 9: 75
- 10 to 19: 24
- 20 to 49: 5
- 50 or more: 11
- Mobile homes: 530
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,200
Housing units in Kelso township with a mortgage: 1,464 (121 second mortgage, 149 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 993
- Construction (21%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Rail transportation (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kelso township:
- German (34.6%)
- United States or American (24.2%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- English (7.9%)
- French (except Basque) (3.8%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Thailand (19%)
- Japan (15%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
- Germany (12%)
- Ecuador (12%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (10%)
- India (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,988 (84%)
- Carpooled: 477 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 14 (0%)
- Walked: 64 (1%)
- Other means: 27 (1%)
- Worked at home: 142 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (2%)
60 people in nursing homes
19 people in other group homes
97.6% of residents of Kelso township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,222- In family households: 8,978 (2,320 male householders, 607 female householders)
2,228 spouses, 3,255 children (2,943 natural, 49 adopted, 263 stepchildren), 135 grandchildren, 57 brothers or sisters, 35 parents, 74 other relatives, 267 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,244 (440 male householders (383 living alone)), 711 female householders (689 living alone)), 93 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 79 (60 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,248 2-persons, 716 3-persons, 600 4-persons, 251 5-persons, 77 6-persons, 35 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,072 1-person, 64 2-persons, 15 3-persons,
1,860 married couples with children.
625 single-parent households (131 men, 494 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 234
| Here: | 17.9% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 44
| Here: | 7.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 38
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |