South Benton township, Dallas County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| South Benton township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
67% of South Benton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% 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: 1421
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 236
- South: 180
- West: 133
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $58,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
18 people in nursing homes
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 563
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 19
- 5 to 9: 19
- 20 to 49: 11
- Mobile homes: 207
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,200
Housing units in South Benton township with a mortgage: 168 (7 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 145
- Construction (20%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (8%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Cashiers (9%)
- Child care workers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Benton township:
- English (22.3%)
- United States or American (18.9%)
- German (18.2%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- French (except Basque) (4.3%)
- Swiss (3.7%)
- Norwegian (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Panama (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 668 (80%)
- Carpooled: 120 (14%)
- Walked: 20 (2%)
- Worked at home: 31 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Wood (15%)
- Utility gas (1%)
18 people in nursing homes
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
84.9% of residents of South Benton township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
13.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 21% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,004- In family households: 1,712 (482 male householders, 47 female householders)
481 spouses, 642 children (605 natural, 7 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 34 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 292 (68 male householders (52 living alone)), 192 female householders (178 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 29 (18 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 232 2-persons, 124 3-persons, 89 4-persons, 55 5-persons, 29 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 230 1-person, 30 2-persons,
538 married couples with children.
79 single-parent households (30 men, 49 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 109
| Here: | 38.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 7.1% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 15.1% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |