Buffalo township, Pike County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (15% naturalized citizens)
Buffalo township: | 3.9% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
58% of Buffalo township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 50% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3904
- Northeast: 72
- Midwest: 1056
- South: 264
- West: 127
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $31,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Buffalo township, Missouri:
- 121 people in nursing homes
- 55 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,851
- One, attached: 43
- Two: 80
- 3 or 4: 145
- 5 to 9: 64
- 10 to 19: 45
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 355
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,200
Housing units in Buffalo township with a mortgage: 578 (40 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 553
- Construction (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (5%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (3%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Buffalo township:
- United States or American (28.1%)
- German (19.0%)
- Irish (11.7%)
- English (10.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- Dutch (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (54%)
- Guatemala (26%)
- Ireland (5%)
- Pakistan (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Japan (3%)
- Russia (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,877 (76%)
- Carpooled: 299 (12%)
- Taxi: 69 (3%)
- Walked: 141 (6%)
- Other means: 23 (1%)
- Worked at home: 68 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (4%)
People in group quarters in Buffalo township, Missouri:
- 121 people in nursing homes
- 55 people in agriculture workers' dormitories on farms
- 3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
94.4% of residents of Buffalo township speak English at home.
4.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (31% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 48% speak English not well, 19% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (46% speak English very well, 54% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,499- In family households: 4,623 (1,177 male householders, 288 female householders)
1,166 spouses, 1,622 children (1,468 natural, 19 adopted, 135 stepchildren), 125 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 50 other relatives, 128 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 876 (343 male householders (289 living alone)), 406 female householders (383 living alone)), 127 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 179 (122 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 667 2-persons, 306 3-persons, 266 4-persons, 124 5-persons, 67 6-persons, 35 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 672 1-person, 58 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 13 5-persons,
924 married couples with children.
365 single-parent households (101 men, 264 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 36
Here: | 6.1% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
Here: | 4.4% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
Here: | 16.4% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |