Seneca township, Newton County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (76% naturalized citizens)
| Seneca township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Seneca 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, 37% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1788
- Northeast: 60
- Midwest: 346
- South: 701
- West: 310
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $25,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
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
67 people in nursing homes
29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,069
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 19
- 3 or 4: 21
- 5 to 9: 23
- 10 to 19: 2
- 20 to 49: 3
- Mobile homes: 185
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,700
Housing units in Seneca township with a mortgage: 384 (15 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 1 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 265
- Construction (12%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Seneca township:
- United States or American (22.9%)
- German (17.5%)
- English (11.8%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
- Welsh (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (16%)
- Japan (12%)
- Other South Central Asia (12%)
- Thailand (12%)
- Austria (8%)
- Germany (8%)
- Netherlands (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,189 (82%)
- Carpooled: 144 (10%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 60 (4%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 45 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Wood (5%)
- No fuel used (1%)
67 people in nursing homes
29 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
98.5% of residents of Seneca township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 28% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,151- In family households: 2,783 (721 male householders, 175 female householders)
715 spouses, 986 children (857 natural, 31 adopted, 98 stepchildren), 67 grandchildren, 26 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 35 other relatives, 57 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 368 (101 male householders (79 living alone)), 222 female householders (210 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 96 (66 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 390 2-persons, 177 3-persons, 203 4-persons, 95 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 289 1-person, 21 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
609 married couples with children.
205 single-parent households (46 men, 159 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 0.5% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.5% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 11.2% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |