Mount Pleasant township, Cass County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Mount Pleasant township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
49% of Mount Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10202
- Northeast: 505
- Midwest: 4447
- South: 1955
- West: 1278
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $86,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
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
113 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,765
- One, attached: 641
- Two: 367
- 3 or 4: 281
- 5 to 9: 202
- 10 to 19: 74
- 20 to 49: 130
- 50 or more: 57
- Mobile homes: 1,115
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 55
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Mount Pleasant township with a mortgage: 3,057 (342 second mortgage, 256 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,041
- Construction (19%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Health care (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Pleasant township:
- German (21.3%)
- United States or American (15.4%)
- Irish (12.2%)
- English (10.2%)
- Italian (3.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (56%)
- Germany (13%)
- Canada (6%)
- Romania (4%)
- Other Eastern Africa (4%)
- France (3%)
- Thailand (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,108 (82%)
- Carpooled: 1,137 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 30 (0%)
- Bicycle: 30 (0%)
- Walked: 91 (1%)
- Other means: 103 (1%)
- Worked at home: 394 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (80%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (1%)
113 people in nursing homes
94.5% of residents of Mount Pleasant township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 35% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 19,177- In family households: 16,705 (4,007 male householders, 1,229 female householders)
4,145 spouses, 6,140 children (5,491 natural, 159 adopted, 490 stepchildren), 330 grandchildren, 104 brothers or sisters, 90 parents, 190 other relatives, 470 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,472 (1,040 male householders (801 living alone)), 979 female householders (846 living alone)), 453 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 111 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 2,080 2-persons, 1,295 3-persons, 1,119 4-persons, 519 5-persons, 159 6-persons, 64 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,647 1-person, 302 2-persons, 53 3-persons, 9 4-persons, 8 5-persons,
3,932 married couples with children.
1,273 single-parent households (311 men, 962 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 217
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 101
| Here: | 10.3% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 199
| Here: | 31.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |