Northwest Marion township, Polk County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Northwest Marion township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
50% of Northwest Marion township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1595
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 403
- South: 222
- West: 220
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $63,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
People in group quarters in Northwest Marion township, Missouri:
- 168 people in nursing homes
- 35 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 30 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 783
- Two: 24
- 5 to 9: 31
- Mobile homes: 141
Median worth of mobile homes: $35,800
Housing units in Northwest Marion township with a mortgage: 229 (12 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 211
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Northwest Marion township:
- United States or American (30.1%)
- German (19.5%)
- English (11.8%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- Italian (2.8%)
- Polish (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (50%)
- Japan (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 767 (83%)
- Carpooled: 99 (11%)
- Walked: 18 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 40 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (66%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Northwest Marion township, Missouri:
- 168 people in nursing homes
- 35 people in schools, hospitals, or wards for the mentally retarded
- 30 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.4% of residents of Northwest Marion township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (24% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 59% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (47% speak English very well, 53% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,243- In family households: 1,964 (542 male householders, 110 female householders)
541 spouses, 674 children (570 natural, 35 adopted, 69 stepchildren), 29 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 27 other relatives, 29 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 279 (68 male householders (61 living alone)), 192 female householders (183 living alone)), 19 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 231 (198 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 282 2-persons, 184 3-persons, 118 4-persons, 49 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 244 1-person, 16 2-persons,
421 married couples with children.
105 single-parent households (21 men, 84 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 2.8% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 39
Here: | 72.2% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |