Long Prairie township, Mississippi County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Long Prairie township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
65% of Long Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1015
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 155
- South: 159
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $30,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
53 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 455
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 12
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 111
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,400
Housing units in Long Prairie township with a mortgage: 168 (0 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 148
- Construction (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Legal support workers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Long Prairie township:
- United States or American (38.3%)
- German (14.2%)
- Irish (14.2%)
- English (9.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Norwegian (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 456 (78%)
- Carpooled: 83 (14%)
- Walked: 13 (2%)
- Other means: 17 (3%)
- Worked at home: 13 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (38%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Wood (3%)
53 people in nursing homes
99.2% of residents of Long Prairie township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,310- In family households: 1,162 (342 male householders, 66 female householders)
370 spouses, 282 children (251 natural, 11 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 35 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 11 other relatives, 56 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 148 (60 male householders (58 living alone)), 75 female householders (64 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 53 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 228 2-persons, 98 3-persons, 58 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 122 1-person, 11 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
141 married couples with children.
63 single-parent households (7 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
Here: | 3.7% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 5.4% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 34.6% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |