West Peculiar township, Cass County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (51% naturalized citizens)
| West Peculiar township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
62% of West Peculiar township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3926
- Northeast: 157
- Midwest: 1017
- South: 362
- West: 288
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $131,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
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
2 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,762
- One, attached: 29
- Two: 64
- 3 or 4: 97
- 5 to 9: 27
- 50 or more: 4
- Mobile homes: 66
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,500
Housing units in West Peculiar township with a mortgage: 1,161 (140 second mortgage, 97 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 266
- Construction (24%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (3%)
- Other financial specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Peculiar township:
- German (25.2%)
- United States or American (17.4%)
- Irish (15.0%)
- English (11.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- Swedish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (32%)
- India (29%)
- Canada (15%)
- Germany (10%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Austria (5%)
- Other Northern Africa (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,478 (84%)
- Carpooled: 297 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 18 (1%)
- Other means: 12 (0%)
- Worked at home: 131 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (41%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Wood (1%)
2 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
98.0% of residents of West Peculiar township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 25% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,828- In family households: 5,432 (1,456 male householders, 227 female householders)
1,446 spouses, 2,063 children (1,886 natural, 53 adopted, 124 stepchildren), 82 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 55 other relatives, 72 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 396 (153 male householders (125 living alone)), 184 female householders (170 living alone)), 59 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 635 2-persons, 375 3-persons, 429 4-persons, 166 5-persons, 55 6-persons, 23 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 295 1-person, 35 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
1,339 married couples with children.
284 single-parent households (79 men, 205 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 78
| Here: | 9.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 37
| Here: | 10.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 54
| Here: | 30.5% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |