Washington township, Laclede County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Washington township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
55% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 24% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1069
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 173
- South: 132
- West: 89
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $147,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 468
- One, attached: 6
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 115
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,800
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 156 (7 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 92
- Transportation equipment (20%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Apparel (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Chemicals (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (13%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Financial managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- United States or American (52.2%)
- German (15.4%)
- Irish (4.2%)
- Scottish (4.0%)
- English (3.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
- Danish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- El Salvador (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 654 (89%)
- Carpooled: 72 (10%)
- Worked at home: 12 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (47%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Wood (20%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
97.7% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 37% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,481- In family households: 1,368 (419 male householders, 38 female householders)
393 spouses, 379 children (322 natural, 13 adopted, 44 stepchildren), 58 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 28 other relatives, 43 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 113 (43 male householders (32 living alone)), 52 female householders (40 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 226 2-persons, 91 3-persons, 70 4-persons, 53 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 72 1-person, 23 2-persons,
302 married couples with children.
48 single-parent households (19 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 2.3% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 34.9% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |