Rock township, Jefferson County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (52% naturalized citizens)
Rock township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Rock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 23277
- Northeast: 475
- Midwest: 2315
- South: 1649
- West: 858
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $134,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
107 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,183
- One, attached: 149
- Two: 169
- 3 or 4: 525
- 5 to 9: 309
- 10 to 19: 282
- 20 to 49: 73
- 50 or more: 8
- Mobile homes: 3,781
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 32
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,100
Housing units in Rock township with a mortgage: 4,248 (439 second mortgage, 551 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,247
- Construction (15%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock township:
- German (33.3%)
- Irish (13.3%)
- United States or American (12.8%)
- English (6.7%)
- French (except Basque) (5.8%)
- Italian (5.5%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (23%)
- Philippines (22%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (15%)
- Mexico (9%)
- Italy (8%)
- Yugoslavia (5%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,334 (87%)
- Carpooled: 1,506 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 21 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 13 (0%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 63 (0%)
- Other means: 28 (0%)
- Worked at home: 294 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (59%)
- Utility gas (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
107 people in nursing homes
96.6% of residents of Rock township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (64% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (68% speak English very well, 32% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 28,923- In family households: 24,922 (6,113 male householders, 1,826 female householders)
6,014 spouses, 9,241 children (8,343 natural, 144 adopted, 754 stepchildren), 399 grandchildren, 194 brothers or sisters, 152 parents, 257 other relatives, 726 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,001 (1,669 male householders (1,242 living alone)), 1,387 female householders (1,077 living alone)), 945 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 108 (107 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,927 2-persons, 2,197 3-persons, 1,802 4-persons, 708 5-persons, 272 6-persons, 33 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,319 1-person, 594 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 41 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
5,423 married couples with children.
2,033 single-parent households (623 men, 1,410 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 328
Here: | 9.4% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 221
Here: | 12.7% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 230
Here: | 22.3% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |