Polk township, Ray County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (20% naturalized citizens)
| Polk township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
58% of Polk township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3219
- Northeast: 82
- Midwest: 589
- South: 209
- West: 241
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $73,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
45 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,389
- One, attached: 20
- Two: 31
- 3 or 4: 80
- 5 to 9: 5
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 47
Median worth of mobile homes: $79,500
Housing units in Polk township with a mortgage: 626 (76 second mortgage, 50 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 183
- Construction (16%)
- Transportation equipment (14%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Rail transportation (3%)
- Food (3%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Polk township:
- United States or American (28.1%)
- German (24.0%)
- Irish (12.3%)
- English (11.5%)
- Italian (2.9%)
- Scottish (1.7%)
- European (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (60%)
- India (20%)
- Canada (20%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,731 (84%)
- Carpooled: 263 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 9 (0%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 48 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (46%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
45 people in nursing homes
97.2% of residents of Polk township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 40% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,323- In family households: 3,992 (1,020 male householders, 169 female householders)
1,066 spouses, 1,549 children (1,393 natural, 35 adopted, 121 stepchildren), 89 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 12 parents, 18 other relatives, 61 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 331 (139 male householders (125 living alone)), 170 female householders (167 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 45 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 470 2-persons, 197 3-persons, 308 4-persons, 133 5-persons, 62 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 292 1-person, 11 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
1,043 married couples with children.
203 single-parent households (56 men, 147 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 2.3% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 0.8% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 28.2% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |