Mason township, Marion County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Mason township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Mason township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9735
- Northeast: 100
- Midwest: 2513
- South: 592
- West: 505
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.5%
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 Mason township, Missouri:
- 283 people in nursing homes
- 37 people in religious group quarters
- 35 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 31 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 17 people in halfway houses
- 17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 6 people in other types of correctional institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,341
- One, attached: 126
- Two: 609
- 3 or 4: 421
- 5 to 9: 255
- 10 to 19: 94
- 20 to 49: 76
- 50 or more: 169
- Mobile homes: 185
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Mason township with a mortgage: 1,848 (74 second mortgage, 54 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,326
- Construction (13%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- 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%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mason township:
- United States or American (27.4%)
- German (23.3%)
- Irish (12.1%)
- English (9.2%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.5%)
- Italian (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (50%)
- Germany (12%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
- Other Eastern Europe (8%)
- Philippines (6%)
- Netherlands (4%)
- Vietnam (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,767 (83%)
- Carpooled: 722 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (0%)
- Taxi: 31 (1%)
- Walked: 94 (2%)
- Other means: 38 (1%)
- Worked at home: 90 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
People in group quarters in Mason township, Missouri:
- 283 people in nursing homes
- 37 people in religious group quarters
- 35 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 31 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 17 people in halfway houses
- 17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 6 people in other types of correctional institutions
97.5% of residents of Mason township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 28% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,224- In family households: 10,880 (2,530 male householders, 964 female householders)
2,571 spouses, 4,130 children (3,570 natural, 67 adopted, 493 stepchildren), 244 grandchildren, 48 brothers or sisters, 54 parents, 102 other relatives, 237 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,344 (828 male householders (678 living alone)), 1,181 female householders (1,082 living alone)), 335 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 445 (301 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,518 2-persons, 830 3-persons, 679 4-persons, 309 5-persons, 99 6-persons, 59 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,760 1-person, 205 2-persons, 16 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
2,139 married couples with children.
1,123 single-parent households (218 men, 905 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 158
| Here: | 8.7% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 131
| Here: | 17.1% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 69
| Here: | 28.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |