Wentzville township, St. Charles County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Wentzville township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
49% of Wentzville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10289
- Northeast: 220
- Midwest: 1465
- South: 739
- West: 428
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $171,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
123 people in nursing homes
2 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,119
- One, attached: 156
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 330
- 5 to 9: 128
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 277
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,100
Housing units in Wentzville township with a mortgage: 2,431 (166 second mortgage, 313 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 695
- Construction (20%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wentzville township:
- German (41.5%)
- United States or American (11.5%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- English (6.5%)
- Italian (3.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (17%)
- Germany (13%)
- Spain (11%)
- India (8%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Vietnam (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,500 (84%)
- Carpooled: 681 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 1 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 146 (2%)
- Worked at home: 223 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (39%)
- Utility gas (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
123 people in nursing homes
2 people in religious group quarters
97.2% of residents of Wentzville township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (41% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 16% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 13,260- In family households: 12,029 (3,054 male householders, 643 female householders)
3,038 spouses, 4,677 children (4,266 natural, 90 adopted, 321 stepchildren), 177 grandchildren, 75 brothers or sisters, 48 parents, 101 other relatives, 216 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,231 (432 male householders (278 living alone)), 581 female householders (534 living alone)), 218 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 125 (124 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,305 2-persons, 890 3-persons, 914 4-persons, 400 5-persons, 105 6-persons, 83 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 812 1-person, 180 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 11 4-persons,
2,820 married couples with children.
952 single-parent households (172 men, 780 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 313
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 67
| Here: | 7.9% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 113
| Here: | 23.1% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |