Washington township, Jackson County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (40% naturalized citizens)
| Washington township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
53% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 30% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 41920
- Northeast: 1579
- Midwest: 14029
- South: 9534
- West: 3182
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Washington township, Missouri:
- 470 people in nursing homes
- 110 people in other workers' dormitories
- 102 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 83 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 66 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 62 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 62 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 11 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 8 people in other group homes
- 7 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 7 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 20,605
- One, attached: 1,554
- Two: 929
- 3 or 4: 1,756
- 5 to 9: 2,102
- 10 to 19: 2,435
- 20 to 49: 753
- 50 or more: 586
- Mobile homes: 57
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 13,010 (1,454 second mortgage, 1,000 home equity loan, 14 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,314
- Construction (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- German (13.1%)
- United States or American (7.0%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- English (6.7%)
- Italian (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.5%)
- African (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (19%)
- Nigeria (7%)
- Jamaica (6%)
- Honduras (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 30,027 (82%)
- Carpooled: 4,528 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 460 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 22 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 11 (0%)
- Taxi: 47 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 59 (0%)
- Bicycle: 48 (0%)
- Walked: 471 (1%)
- Other means: 213 (1%)
- Worked at home: 654 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Washington township, Missouri:
- 470 people in nursing homes
- 110 people in other workers' dormitories
- 102 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 83 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 66 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 62 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 62 people in other hospitals or wards for chronically ill
- 11 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 8 people in other group homes
- 7 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
- 7 people in religious group quarters
93.4% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (55% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other language at home (71% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 73,024- In family households: 61,016 (13,008 male householders, 6,298 female householders)
13,038 spouses, 22,699 children (20,654 natural, 622 adopted, 1,423 stepchildren), 1,720 grandchildren, 732 brothers or sisters, 437 parents, 1,173 other relatives, 1,911 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 12,008 (4,772 male householders (3,642 living alone)), 5,112 female householders (4,550 living alone)), 2,124 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 931 (631 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 8,098 2-persons, 4,719 3-persons, 3,570 4-persons, 1,827 5-persons, 736 6-persons, 356 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 8,192 1-person, 1,413 2-persons, 195 3-persons, 62 4-persons, 11 5-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
10,680 married couples with children.
7,115 single-parent households (1,169 men, 5,946 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,411
| Here: | 14.6% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 565
| Here: | 13.1% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 902
| Here: | 24.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |