Fishing River township, Ray County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (56% naturalized citizens)
Fishing River township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
70% of Fishing River township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 32% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3618
- Northeast: 111
- Midwest: 787
- South: 307
- West: 212
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,620
- One, attached: 10
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 315
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,500
Housing units in Fishing River township with a mortgage: 756 (68 second mortgage, 49 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 290
- Construction (11%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Air transportation (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fishing River township:
- United States or American (25.8%)
- German (21.6%)
- English (10.7%)
- Irish (9.3%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- European (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (28%)
- Italy (22%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Germany (16%)
- Philippines (9%)
- Korea (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,155 (86%)
- Carpooled: 252 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (0%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 88 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (49%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Utility gas (17%)
- Wood (5%)
97.7% of residents of Fishing River township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,115- In family households: 4,715 (1,357 male householders, 170 female householders)
1,380 spouses, 1,542 children (1,387 natural, 61 adopted, 94 stepchildren), 93 grandchildren, 14 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 65 other relatives, 75 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 400 (181 male householders (128 living alone)), 139 female householders (117 living alone)), 80 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 702 2-persons, 287 3-persons, 323 4-persons, 148 5-persons, 56 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 245 1-person, 70 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
1,049 married couples with children.
171 single-parent households (61 men, 110 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
Here: | 4.3% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
Here: | 2.4% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
Here: | 17.5% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |