Shoal Creek township, Newton County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (41% naturalized citizens)
| Shoal Creek township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Shoal Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 23% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6309
- Northeast: 239
- Midwest: 2179
- South: 1983
- West: 732
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $97,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Shoal Creek township, Missouri:
- 246 people in nursing homes
- 69 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 13 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 13 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in other workers' dormitories
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,502
- One, attached: 59
- Two: 178
- 3 or 4: 90
- 5 to 9: 57
- 10 to 19: 104
- 20 to 49: 85
- 50 or more: 29
- Mobile homes: 877
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,700
Housing units in Shoal Creek township with a mortgage: 1,671 (96 second mortgage, 189 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 979
- Health care (12%)
- Construction (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Physicians and surgeons (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shoal Creek township:
- German (20.7%)
- United States or American (15.5%)
- Irish (12.8%)
- English (12.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Scottish (3.0%)
- Italian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (25%)
- Canada (9%)
- Japan (8%)
- Korea (8%)
- Vietnam (6%)
- Italy (5%)
- India (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,718 (82%)
- Carpooled: 662 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Bicycle: 42 (1%)
- Walked: 84 (1%)
- Other means: 58 (1%)
- Worked at home: 185 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Electricity (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
People in group quarters in Shoal Creek township, Missouri:
- 246 people in nursing homes
- 69 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 17 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 13 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 13 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 8 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 3 people in other workers' dormitories
95.6% of residents of Shoal Creek township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 21% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (47% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,357- In family households: 9,764 (2,813 male householders, 495 female householders)
2,888 spouses, 2,937 children (2,501 natural, 95 adopted, 341 stepchildren), 193 grandchildren, 76 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 154 other relatives, 187 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,593 (555 male householders (409 living alone)), 746 female householders (642 living alone)), 292 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 353 (248 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,638 2-persons, 694 3-persons, 580 4-persons, 285 5-persons, 87 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,051 1-person, 216 2-persons, 30 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
1,981 married couples with children.
403 single-parent households (114 men, 289 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 323
| Here: | 27.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 92
| Here: | 15.1% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 95
| Here: | 19.7% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |