Penn township, Sullivan County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Penn township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
59% of Penn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 950
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 166
- South: 36
- West: 59
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $18,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 479
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 57
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 92
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,300
Housing units in Penn township with a mortgage: 114 (2 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 183
- Food (28%)
- Construction (18%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (3%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Food (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Food processing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn township:
- United States or American (29.8%)
- German (17.0%)
- Irish (13.0%)
- English (12.0%)
- Dutch (3.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Norwegian (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (73%)
- Honduras (13%)
- Colombia (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 410 (77%)
- Carpooled: 80 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 30 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
95.8% of residents of Penn township speak English at home.
3.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (44% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,248- In family households: 1,040 (291 male householders, 64 female householders)
284 spouses, 339 children (299 natural, 3 adopted, 37 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 2 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 208 (69 male householders (65 living alone)), 127 female householders (121 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 181 2-persons, 77 3-persons, 50 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 186 1-person, 9 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
246 married couples with children.
42 single-parent households (13 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 3.2% |
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: 1
Here: | 11.1% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |