Ruth B Rural township, Stone County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (81% naturalized citizens)
| Ruth B Rural township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
51% of Ruth B Rural township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 28% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 40% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 962
- Northeast: 67
- Midwest: 1003
- South: 410
- West: 252
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
99 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,127
- One, attached: 37
- Two: 58
- 3 or 4: 34
- 5 to 9: 26
- 10 to 19: 8
- Mobile homes: 381
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,400
Housing units in Ruth B Rural township with a mortgage: 325 (11 second mortgage, 18 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 366
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (23%)
- Health care (16%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (8%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Top executives (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ruth B Rural township:
- German (24.9%)
- United States or American (19.5%)
- Irish (13.1%)
- English (12.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.3%)
- Polish (2.8%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (41%)
- Canada (31%)
- Germany (20%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 776 (81%)
- Carpooled: 59 (6%)
- Walked: 39 (4%)
- Worked at home: 88 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (51%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (45%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
99 people in nursing homes
98.5% of residents of Ruth B Rural township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,662- In family households: 2,254 (742 male householders, 183 female householders)
783 spouses, 454 children (381 natural, 27 adopted, 46 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 31 other relatives, 35 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 408 (109 male householders (46 living alone)), 197 female householders (190 living alone)), 102 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 99 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 681 2-persons, 152 3-persons, 53 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 236 1-person, 58 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 8 5-persons,
311 married couples with children.
110 single-parent households (24 men, 86 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 17
| Here: | 9.2% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 20
| Here: | 19.2% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |