May township, Platte County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (42% naturalized citizens)
| May township: | 5.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
36% of May township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7820
- Northeast: 640
- Midwest: 4434
- South: 1868
- West: 1205
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $140,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
146 people in nursing homes
42 people in unknown juvenile institutions
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,671
- One, attached: 546
- Two: 262
- 3 or 4: 741
- 5 to 9: 1,084
- 10 to 19: 838
- 20 to 49: 504
- 50 or more: 368
- Mobile homes: 138
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,800
Housing units in May township with a mortgage: 2,948 (331 second mortgage, 258 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 622
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Air transportation (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Air transportation (4%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in May township:
- German (22.7%)
- Irish (12.2%)
- English (12.1%)
- United States or American (8.7%)
- Italian (5.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (20%)
- Korea (10%)
- Canada (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Taiwan (5%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,926 (87%)
- Carpooled: 961 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 69 (1%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (1%)
- Other means: 28 (0%)
- Worked at home: 228 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Electricity (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
146 people in nursing homes
42 people in unknown juvenile institutions
92.1% of residents of May township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (26% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 33% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (64% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,800- In family households: 12,883 (3,426 male householders, 968 female householders)
3,545 spouses, 4,295 children (3,794 natural, 142 adopted, 359 stepchildren), 65 grandchildren, 119 brothers or sisters, 76 parents, 94 other relatives, 295 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,917 (1,621 male householders (1,247 living alone)), 1,540 female householders (1,312 living alone)), 756 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 187 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 2,049 2-persons, 1,050 3-persons, 829 4-persons, 353 5-persons, 93 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,559 1-person, 544 2-persons, 41 3-persons, 15 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
2,890 married couples with children.
717 single-parent households (160 men, 557 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 139
| Here: | 8.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 58
| Here: | 8.8% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 197
| Here: | 28.5% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |