Prairie Home township, Cooper County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (56% naturalized citizens)
Prairie Home township: | 1.6% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
66% of Prairie Home township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 442
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 52
- South: 16
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 218
- 3 or 4: 12
- Mobile homes: 32
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $42,800
Housing units in Prairie Home township with a mortgage: 57 (3 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 40
- Construction (22%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (7%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other financial specialists (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Life and physical scientists (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie Home township:
- German (42.3%)
- United States or American (19.6%)
- English (10.9%)
- Irish (8.5%)
- Polish (3.4%)
- Swedish (1.9%)
- European (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (56%)
- Germany (22%)
- Canada (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 182 (76%)
- Carpooled: 41 (17%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 15 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Wood (15%)
- Solar energy (1%)
94.5% of residents of Prairie Home township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
3.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (59% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 12% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 548- In family households: 464 (127 male householders, 26 female householders)
126 spouses, 160 children (150 natural, 0 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 2 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 84 (36 male householders (32 living alone)), 43 female householders (43 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 65 2-persons, 45 3-persons, 22 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 75 1-person, 2 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
110 married couples with children.
18 single-parent households (7 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
Here: | 11.5% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 66.7% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |