Mount Vernon township, Lawrence County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (36% naturalized citizens)
Mount Vernon township: | 0.9% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Mount Vernon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 53% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3922
- Northeast: 88
- Midwest: 890
- South: 798
- West: 589
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $71,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Mount Vernon township, Missouri:
- 254 people in nursing homes
- 72 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 23 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 21 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,139
- One, attached: 32
- Two: 43
- 3 or 4: 114
- 5 to 9: 51
- 10 to 19: 57
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 232
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,700
Housing units in Mount Vernon township with a mortgage: 838 (17 second mortgage, 86 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 418
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Health care (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mount Vernon township:
- United States or American (22.9%)
- German (19.9%)
- Irish (13.5%)
- English (13.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.0%)
- Italian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (47%)
- Australia (17%)
- Other Western Europe (15%)
- Panama (14%)
- Germany (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,298 (81%)
- Carpooled: 225 (8%)
- Taxi: 9 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 92 (3%)
- Other means: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 201 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Electricity (23%)
- Wood (4%)
People in group quarters in Mount Vernon township, Missouri:
- 254 people in nursing homes
- 72 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 23 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 21 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
99.0% of residents of Mount Vernon township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 32% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,999- In family households: 5,229 (1,329 male householders, 444 female householders)
1,426 spouses, 1,759 children (1,592 natural, 88 adopted, 79 stepchildren), 89 grandchildren, 51 brothers or sisters, 33 parents, 25 other relatives, 73 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 770 (317 male householders (274 living alone)), 401 female householders (391 living alone)), 52 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 375 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 856 2-persons, 386 3-persons, 342 4-persons, 128 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 32 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 665 1-person, 53 2-persons,
1,065 married couples with children.
353 single-parent households (75 men, 278 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 34
Here: | 4.7% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 12
Here: | 4.3% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
Here: | 17.1% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |