Jefferson township, Andrew County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Jefferson township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
56% of Jefferson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3455
- Northeast: 79
- Midwest: 582
- South: 219
- West: 183
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $125,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,347
- One, attached: 80
- Two: 75
- 3 or 4: 34
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 223
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Jefferson township with a mortgage: 678 (33 second mortgage, 47 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 327
- Construction (16%)
- Food (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (26%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (3%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jefferson township:
- German (28.1%)
- United States or American (14.6%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- English (12.5%)
- Polish (2.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (17%)
- United Kingdom (15%)
- Poland (15%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (13%)
- Netherlands (10%)
- Panama (6%)
- Germany (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,055 (86%)
- Carpooled: 250 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 11 (0%)
- Other means: 11 (0%)
- Worked at home: 68 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (40%)
- Utility gas (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
97.8% of residents of Jefferson township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,575- In family households: 4,144 (1,150 male householders, 158 female householders)
1,127 spouses, 1,504 children (1,331 natural, 56 adopted, 117 stepchildren), 57 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 44 parents, 39 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 431 (168 male householders (139 living alone)), 177 female householders (142 living alone)), 86 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 526 2-persons, 287 3-persons, 303 4-persons, 124 5-persons, 58 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 281 1-person, 55 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 3 6-persons,
961 married couples with children.
194 single-parent households (58 men, 136 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 79
| Here: | 12.8% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 22
| Here: | 7.7% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |