Benton township, Crawford County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (21% naturalized citizens)
| Benton township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
47% of Benton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% 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: 4734
- Northeast: 74
- Midwest: 413
- South: 444
- West: 203
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
117 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,874
- One, attached: 42
- Two: 59
- 3 or 4: 120
- 5 to 9: 56
- 10 to 19: 71
- 20 to 49: 15
- Mobile homes: 453
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,800
Housing units in Benton township with a mortgage: 630 (34 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 397
- Construction (13%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Benton township:
- United States or American (26.8%)
- German (21.2%)
- Irish (17.0%)
- English (9.6%)
- Italian (3.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (56%)
- United Kingdom (19%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (13%)
- India (5%)
- Philippines (4%)
- Polynesia (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,873 (79%)
- Carpooled: 330 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 53 (2%)
- Other means: 30 (1%)
- Worked at home: 64 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (42%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Wood (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
117 people in nursing homes
96.4% of residents of Benton township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,857- In family households: 5,092 (1,318 male householders, 340 female householders)
1,292 spouses, 1,732 children (1,538 natural, 14 adopted, 180 stepchildren), 86 grandchildren, 47 brothers or sisters, 24 parents, 111 other relatives, 142 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 765 (283 male householders (253 living alone)), 387 female householders (335 living alone)), 95 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 119 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 753 2-persons, 369 3-persons, 340 4-persons, 114 5-persons, 55 6-persons, 27 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 588 1-person, 76 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 1 4-persons, 2 5-persons, 1 6-persons,
1,037 married couples with children.
390 single-parent households (98 men, 292 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 44
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 28
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |