Iron township, Iron County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Iron township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
64% of Iron township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 983
- Northeast: 16
- Midwest: 79
- South: 64
- West: 18
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
10 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 377
- Mobile homes: 154
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $33,800
Housing units in Iron township with a mortgage: 71 (2 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 91
- Construction (17%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Health care (29%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Construction (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (16%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Iron township:
- United States or American (20.7%)
- German (20.0%)
- Irish (14.5%)
- French (except Basque) (9.4%)
- English (7.2%)
- Italian (5.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 300 (74%)
- Carpooled: 62 (15%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Wood (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Utility gas (1%)
10 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.5% of residents of Iron township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (27% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 55% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,158- In family households: 973 (260 male householders, 59 female householders)
268 spouses, 341 children (320 natural, 9 adopted, 12 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 14 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 185 (85 male householders (71 living alone)), 71 female householders (61 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 143 2-persons, 86 3-persons, 62 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 132 1-person, 22 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
181 married couples with children.
87 single-parent households (29 men, 58 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 7.0% |
| 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: 3
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |