Polk township, Cass County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Polk township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
65% of Polk township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 91% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1386
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 174
- South: 105
- West: 52
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 564
- One, attached: 7
- Mobile homes: 79
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $59,200
Housing units in Polk township with a mortgage: 109 (5 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 31
- Construction (25%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Construction (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Polk township:
- German (24.9%)
- United States or American (19.1%)
- Irish (15.0%)
- English (11.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.3%)
- French (except Basque) (3.3%)
- Italian (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 709 (80%)
- Carpooled: 111 (12%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 64 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (53%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Wood (10%)
- Utility gas (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
99.4% of residents of Polk township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,725- In family households: 1,570 (480 male householders, 46 female householders)
475 spouses, 501 children (469 natural, 1 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 13 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 155 (77 male householders (56 living alone)), 44 female householders (39 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 247 2-persons, 109 3-persons, 108 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 95 1-person, 18 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
383 married couples with children.
47 single-parent households (19 men, 28 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 6.9% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 17.8% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |