Prairie township, Pettis County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (44% naturalized citizens)
Prairie township: | 3.7% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
48% of Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1330
- Northeast: 44
- Midwest: 363
- South: 181
- West: 91
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $350,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.7%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 686
- One, attached: 7
- 3 or 4: 5
- 5 to 9: 21
- 10 to 19: 33
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 37
Median worth of mobile homes: $53,300
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 336 (11 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 199
- Health care (13%)
- Construction (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (20%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Top executives (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Physicians and surgeons (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- German (41.3%)
- United States or American (15.5%)
- English (15.1%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
- British (1.8%)
- Dutch (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (29%)
- Ukraine (19%)
- Canada (17%)
- Other Eastern Europe (8%)
- Iran (8%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 950 (91%)
- Carpooled: 67 (6%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 20 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
95.9% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (15% speak English very well, 85% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,103- In family households: 1,973 (611 male householders, 46 female householders)
649 spouses, 625 children (534 natural, 36 adopted, 55 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 13 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 130 (46 male householders (42 living alone)), 76 female householders (73 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 311 2-persons, 141 3-persons, 130 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 115 1-person, 7 2-persons,
536 married couples with children.
40 single-parent households (9 men, 31 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 69
Here: | 26.6% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 44
Here: | 32.8% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
Here: | 33.3% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |