Pierce township, Stone County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Pierce township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
49% of Pierce 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, 62% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1201
- Northeast: 19
- Midwest: 210
- South: 253
- West: 149
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $40,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
61 people in nursing homes
27 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 605
- One, attached: 26
- 3 or 4: 83
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 8
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 73
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Pierce township with a mortgage: 212 (21 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 160
- Construction (17%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Art and design workers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pierce township:
- United States or American (26.4%)
- Irish (14.2%)
- German (13.0%)
- English (8.6%)
- French (except Basque) (4.9%)
- Scottish (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (67%)
- United Kingdom (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 507 (72%)
- Carpooled: 145 (21%)
- Bicycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 14 (2%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 28 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Wood (5%)
- Solar energy (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
61 people in nursing homes
27 people in other nonhousehold living situations
99.2% of residents of Pierce township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,761- In family households: 1,504 (368 male householders, 107 female householders)
378 spouses, 534 children (468 natural, 14 adopted, 52 stepchildren), 32 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 26 other relatives, 53 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 257 (73 male householders (63 living alone)), 152 female householders (147 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 87 (58 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 195 2-persons, 110 3-persons, 106 4-persons, 38 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 210 1-person, 8 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 3 5-persons,
353 married couples with children.
99 single-parent households (26 men, 73 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
Here: | 1.3% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.0% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 22.2% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |