South Benton township, Polk County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
South Benton township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
73% of South Benton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 717
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 124
- South: 76
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 250
- Mobile homes: 95
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,500
Housing units in South Benton township with a mortgage: 37 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 16
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (22%)
- Construction (19%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (3%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (2%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (20%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in South Benton township:
- United States or American (38.6%)
- German (26.9%)
- English (8.3%)
- Irish (5.0%)
- Swiss (2.7%)
- British (2.3%)
- European (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (50%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 330 (77%)
- Carpooled: 40 (9%)
- Walked: 12 (3%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 45 (11%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (46%)
- Electricity (34%)
- Wood (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
77.2% of residents of South Benton township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
22.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (57% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 10% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 971- In family households: 893 (225 male householders, 21 female householders)
234 spouses, 402 children (376 natural, 9 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 1 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 78 (24 male householders (20 living alone)), 40 female householders (32 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 101 2-persons, 45 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 52 1-person, 12 2-persons,
286 married couples with children.
39 single-parent households (9 men, 30 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 75
Here: | 49.7% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 7.1% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
Here: | 17.6% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |