Pettis township, Adair County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Pettis township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
66% of Pettis 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, 38% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 453
- Northeast: 224
- Midwest: 6
- South: 13
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 215
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 51
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,100
Housing units in Pettis township with a mortgage: 59 (4 second mortgage, 1 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 63
- Construction (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (7%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (10%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pettis township:
- German (21.2%)
- United States or American (18.9%)
- English (16.0%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- Italian (4.6%)
- Dutch (3.1%)
- Polish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Italy (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 195 (75%)
- Carpooled: 47 (18%)
- Walked: 6 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (2%)
- Worked at home: 7 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Wood (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Coal or coke (2%)
- Electricity (1%)
98.3% of residents of Pettis township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 701- In family households: 625 (151 male householders, 53 female householders)
148 spouses, 224 children (204 natural, 2 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 10 other relatives, 22 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 76 (28 male householders (18 living alone)), 35 female householders (29 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 73 2-persons, 73 3-persons, 30 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 47 1-person, 16 2-persons,
112 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (9 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
Here: | 13.9% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 15.9% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |