Marion township, Jasper County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 9 (17% naturalized citizens)
| Marion township: | 9.0% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
47% of Marion township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 35% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8012
- Northeast: 238
- Midwest: 1526
- South: 1711
- West: 1153
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
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
People in group quarters in Marion township, Missouri:
- 151 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 150 people in religious group quarters
- 114 people in nursing homes
- 89 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 24 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,641
- One, attached: 125
- Two: 203
- 3 or 4: 166
- 5 to 9: 145
- 10 to 19: 56
- 20 to 49: 26
- 50 or more: 22
- Mobile homes: 293
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 26
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Marion township with a mortgage: 1,832 (129 second mortgage, 133 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,258
- Food (13%)
- Construction (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (9%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Food (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Marion township:
- United States or American (18.8%)
- German (16.6%)
- English (10.9%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Italian (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- Guatemala (37%)
- Vietnam (8%)
- El Salvador (7%)
- Japan (1%)
- United Kingdom (1%)
- Germany (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,926 (79%)
- Carpooled: 816 (13%)
- Bicycle: 75 (1%)
- Walked: 228 (4%)
- Other means: 29 (0%)
- Worked at home: 140 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Wood (2%)
People in group quarters in Marion township, Missouri:
- 151 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 150 people in religious group quarters
- 114 people in nursing homes
- 89 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 37 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 24 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
86.4% of residents of Marion township speak English at home.
11.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (30% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 34% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (19% speak English very well, 70% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,436- In family households: 11,533 (2,845 male householders, 859 female householders)
2,836 spouses, 3,984 children (3,433 natural, 106 adopted, 445 stepchildren), 251 grandchildren, 66 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 222 other relatives, 428 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,903 (571 male householders (437 living alone)), 998 female householders (925 living alone)), 334 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 557 (127 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,566 2-persons, 938 3-persons, 644 4-persons, 330 5-persons, 139 6-persons, 87 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,362 1-person, 151 2-persons, 26 3-persons, 13 4-persons, 17 6-persons,
2,352 married couples with children.
831 single-parent households (208 men, 623 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 42
| Here: | 2.7% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 49
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 23
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |