Prairie township, Franklin County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (89% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
63% of Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3201
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 267
- South: 273
- West: 59
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $181,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
6 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,137
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 5
- Mobile homes: 347
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,900
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 312 (20 second mortgage, 41 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 133
- Construction (23%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Public administration (14%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (13%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (15%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (9%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Drugs, sundries, and chemical and allied products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (12%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (20%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Accountants and auditors (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- German (31.8%)
- United States or American (15.7%)
- Irish (12.7%)
- English (8.2%)
- French (except Basque) (7.9%)
- Italian (5.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (89%)
- Netherlands (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,463 (79%)
- Carpooled: 290 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 61 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Wood (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
6 people in religious group quarters
97.7% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,843- In family households: 3,462 (963 male householders, 90 female householders)
1,006 spouses, 1,240 children (1,054 natural, 47 adopted, 139 stepchildren), 68 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 35 other relatives, 60 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 381 (190 male householders (142 living alone)), 96 female householders (68 living alone)), 95 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 425 2-persons, 185 3-persons, 259 4-persons, 150 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 210 1-person, 61 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
844 married couples with children.
177 single-parent households (55 men, 122 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 99
| Here: | 17.9% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 24
| Here: | 11.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 16
| Here: | 18.8% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |