West Benton township, Webster County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (58% naturalized citizens)
West Benton township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
44% of West Benton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1865
- Northeast: 50
- Midwest: 397
- South: 294
- West: 275
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $73,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 897
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 35
- 3 or 4: 71
- 10 to 19: 14
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 156
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,100
Housing units in West Benton township with a mortgage: 440 (32 second mortgage, 62 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 108
- Construction (18%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in West Benton township:
- United States or American (28.9%)
- German (20.3%)
- English (11.1%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- Scottish (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (26%)
- Other Central America (26%)
- Nicaragua (16%)
- Korea (11%)
- Iran (11%)
- Canada (11%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,118 (81%)
- Carpooled: 176 (13%)
- Walked: 30 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 57 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Electricity (27%)
- Wood (8%)
97.6% of residents of West Benton township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (81% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,919- In family households: 2,611 (670 male householders, 156 female householders)
699 spouses, 973 children (937 natural, 2 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 37 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 23 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 308 (129 male householders (116 living alone)), 149 female householders (139 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 331 2-persons, 172 3-persons, 212 4-persons, 76 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 255 1-person, 20 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
624 married couples with children.
234 single-parent households (75 men, 159 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
Here: | 3.6% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 1.9% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 21
Here: | 17.8% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |