Fishing River township, Clay County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (33% naturalized citizens)
Fishing River township: | 1.4% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
50% of Fishing River 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, 77% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 7540
- Northeast: 288
- Midwest: 1424
- South: 617
- West: 575
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
361 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
63 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,180
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 168
- 3 or 4: 261
- 5 to 9: 168
- 10 to 19: 136
- 20 to 49: 72
- 50 or more: 220
- Mobile homes: 257
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,000
Housing units in Fishing River township with a mortgage: 1,542 (120 second mortgage, 175 home equity loan, 18 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 738
- Construction (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fishing River township:
- United States or American (23.0%)
- German (20.6%)
- English (9.6%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Italian (3.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (23%)
- Canada (18%)
- Iraq (15%)
- Germany (13%)
- Micronesia (7%)
- Netherlands (6%)
- Japan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 3,890 (78%)
- Carpooled: 764 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 33 (1%)
- Subway or elevated: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 161 (3%)
- Other means: 71 (1%)
- Worked at home: 59 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Wood (1%)
361 people in job corps and vocational training facilities
63 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
95.7% of residents of Fishing River township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 6% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 42% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,267- In family households: 8,790 (2,161 male householders, 643 female householders)
2,195 spouses, 3,044 children (2,745 natural, 68 adopted, 231 stepchildren), 242 grandchildren, 116 brothers or sisters, 32 parents, 85 other relatives, 272 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,477 (572 male householders (433 living alone)), 690 female householders (633 living alone)), 215 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 420 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,183 2-persons, 659 3-persons, 547 4-persons, 252 5-persons, 120 6-persons, 43 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,066 1-person, 167 2-persons, 29 3-persons,
1,809 married couples with children.
708 single-parent households (178 men, 530 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 46
Here: | 3.6% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 43
Here: | 5.4% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 34
Here: | 11.7% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |