Morgan township, Mercer County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (80% naturalized citizens)
| Morgan township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Morgan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 922
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 372
- South: 45
- West: 64
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $14,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Morgan township, Missouri:
- 36 people in nursing homes
- 21 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 3 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 565
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 26
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 35
- 20 to 49: 53
- Mobile homes: 40
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,900
Housing units in Morgan township with a mortgage: 136 (6 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 204
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (34%)
- Construction (9%)
- Food (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Morgan township:
- German (30.6%)
- United States or American (24.3%)
- English (17.1%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.5%)
- Norwegian (1.7%)
- Scottish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (80%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 471 (78%)
- Carpooled: 75 (12%)
- Walked: 21 (3%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Morgan township, Missouri:
- 36 people in nursing homes
- 21 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 3 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
98.0% of residents of Morgan township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 47% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,367- In family households: 1,075 (297 male householders, 88 female householders)
290 spouses, 358 children (332 natural, 9 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 2 other relatives, 30 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 292 (100 male householders (87 living alone)), 173 female householders (172 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 61 (43 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 200 2-persons, 87 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 5 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 259 1-person, 13 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
226 married couples with children.
95 single-parent households (34 men, 61 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |