Platte township, Clay County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (74% naturalized citizens)
| Platte township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
48% of Platte township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6816
- Northeast: 303
- Midwest: 2427
- South: 843
- West: 571
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $153,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
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 Platte township, Missouri:
- 86 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 2 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,429
- One, attached: 216
- Two: 98
- 3 or 4: 217
- 5 to 9: 29
- 10 to 19: 21
- 20 to 49: 24
- Mobile homes: 277
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,600
Housing units in Platte township with a mortgage: 2,361 (171 second mortgage, 261 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 515
- Construction (13%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Air transportation (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Platte township:
- German (27.5%)
- United States or American (17.7%)
- English (10.1%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- Italian (4.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Swedish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (12%)
- Germany (10%)
- Mexico (10%)
- Colombia (10%)
- Nicaragua (9%)
- Netherlands (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,139 (88%)
- Carpooled: 484 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (0%)
- Railroad: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 34 (1%)
- Other means: 32 (1%)
- Worked at home: 137 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Electricity (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
People in group quarters in Platte township, Missouri:
- 86 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 2 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
97.2% of residents of Platte township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 4% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (49% speak English very well, 46% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,090- In family households: 9,965 (2,688 male householders, 490 female householders)
2,743 spouses, 3,606 children (3,226 natural, 87 adopted, 293 stepchildren), 99 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 45 parents, 88 other relatives, 182 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,125 (451 male householders (330 living alone)), 445 female householders (390 living alone)), 229 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 106 (94 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,216 2-persons, 833 3-persons, 768 4-persons, 258 5-persons, 83 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 720 1-person, 153 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 7 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
2,485 married couples with children.
470 single-parent households (106 men, 364 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 68
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 60
| Here: | 8.9% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 67
| Here: | 18.4% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |