Spring Creek East township, Dent County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Spring Creek East township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
49% of Spring Creek East township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3249
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 544
- South: 352
- West: 310
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $90,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Spring Creek East township, Missouri:
- 32 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 2 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,447
- One, attached: 31
- Two: 58
- 3 or 4: 124
- 5 to 9: 6
- 20 to 49: 17
- 50 or more: 6
- Mobile homes: 310
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,400
Housing units in Spring Creek East township with a mortgage: 481 (28 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 411
- Construction (9%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (8%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Apparel (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring Creek East township:
- United States or American (25.0%)
- German (17.7%)
- Irish (14.9%)
- English (11.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Swedish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (49%)
- Germany (15%)
- Canada (13%)
- Philippines (11%)
- Other Caribbean (9%)
- Poland (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,630 (85%)
- Carpooled: 196 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (1%)
- Other means: 31 (2%)
- Worked at home: 38 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Wood (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
People in group quarters in Spring Creek East township, Missouri:
- 32 people in nursing homes
- 13 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 2 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.3% of residents of Spring Creek East township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,537- In family households: 3,884 (968 male householders, 317 female householders)
1,039 spouses, 1,397 children (1,294 natural, 28 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 13 other relatives, 73 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 653 (195 male householders (165 living alone)), 382 female householders (349 living alone)), 76 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 59 (51 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 572 2-persons, 261 3-persons, 295 4-persons, 120 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 21 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 514 1-person, 56 2-persons, 7 4-persons,
805 married couples with children.
305 single-parent households (49 men, 256 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 42
| Here: | 50.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |