Thayer township, Oregon County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Thayer township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
54% of Thayer township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1847
- Northeast: 53
- Midwest: 488
- South: 1130
- West: 251
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
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
98 people in nursing homes
7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,429
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 46
- 3 or 4: 43
- 5 to 9: 30
- 10 to 19: 11
- 20 to 49: 21
- Mobile homes: 232
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,200
Housing units in Thayer township with a mortgage: 370 (26 second mortgage, 15 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 363
- Construction (11%)
- Wood products (11%)
- Rail transportation (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Woodworkers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thayer township:
- United States or American (32.1%)
- Irish (13.3%)
- German (13.1%)
- English (11.8%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- Dutch (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (38%)
- Philippines (12%)
- Vietnam (12%)
- Honduras (12%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Other Northern Europe (8%)
- Cuba (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,069 (77%)
- Carpooled: 216 (16%)
- Railroad: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 28 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 68 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (56%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Wood (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
98 people in nursing homes
7 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.8% of residents of Thayer township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,703- In family households: 3,180 (846 male householders, 190 female householders)
905 spouses, 1,040 children (932 natural, 33 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 46 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 35 other relatives, 85 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 523 (177 male householders (157 living alone)), 309 female householders (295 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 104 (97 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 481 2-persons, 227 3-persons, 202 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 452 1-person, 32 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
622 married couples with children.
183 single-parent households (44 men, 139 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 14
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |