Benton township, Wayne County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (25% naturalized citizens)
Benton township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
57% of Benton 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, 97% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 410
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 13
- South: 6
- West: 9
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
87 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 149
- Mobile homes: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $62,500
Housing units in Benton township with a mortgage: 36 (7 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 13
- Construction (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Woodworkers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Benton township:
- German (36.7%)
- Norwegian (18.9%)
- Irish (16.0%)
- Swedish (7.6%)
- United States or American (4.5%)
- Swiss (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Ukraine (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 179 (74%)
- Carpooled: 20 (8%)
- Walked: 8 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (14%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (66%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (23%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (2%)
87 people in nursing homes
96.8% of residents of Benton township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 453- In family households: 411 (115 male householders, 13 female householders)
116 spouses, 156 children (141 natural, 6 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 42 (20 male householders (14 living alone)), 11 female householders (10 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 49 2-persons, 36 3-persons, 23 4-persons, 11 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 24 1-person, 5 2-persons, 2 5-persons,
524 married couples with children.
274 single-parent households (67 men, 207 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
Here: | 14.3% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |