Ferguson township, St. Louis County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Ferguson township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
59% of Ferguson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% 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: 28365
- Northeast: 498
- Midwest: 3302
- South: 3398
- West: 716
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $52,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Ferguson township, Missouri:
- 341 people in nursing homes
- 68 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 12,111
- One, attached: 214
- Two: 106
- 3 or 4: 402
- 5 to 9: 742
- 10 to 19: 669
- 20 to 49: 159
- 50 or more: 591
- Mobile homes: 7
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 7
Median worth of mobile homes: $45,000
Housing units in Ferguson township with a mortgage: 7,225 (721 second mortgage, 655 home equity loan, 24 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,978
- Construction (9%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ferguson township:
- German (16.3%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- United States or American (4.5%)
- English (4.5%)
- Italian (4.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- Polish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (17%)
- Germany (17%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- Other Eastern Africa (7%)
- Nigeria (5%)
- Cuba (4%)
- Thailand (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 13,909 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,788 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 309 (2%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 84 (1%)
- Railroad: 17 (0%)
- Taxi: 12 (0%)
- Bicycle: 19 (0%)
- Walked: 224 (1%)
- Other means: 110 (1%)
- Worked at home: 224 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Electricity (16%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Ferguson township, Missouri:
- 341 people in nursing homes
- 68 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 7 people in religious group quarters
- 5 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 2 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.8% of residents of Ferguson township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (64% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (24% speak English very well, 62% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 36,445- In family households: 30,837 (6,069 male householders, 3,464 female householders)
6,343 spouses, 12,103 children (11,385 natural, 227 adopted, 491 stepchildren), 992 grandchildren, 303 brothers or sisters, 260 parents, 501 other relatives, 802 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,608 (2,017 male householders (1,727 living alone)), 2,781 female householders (2,448 living alone)), 810 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 440 (359 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,662 2-persons, 2,342 3-persons, 1,908 4-persons, 980 5-persons, 441 6-persons, 200 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 4,175 1-person, 511 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 21 4-persons, 30 5-persons,
5,305 married couples with children.
3,849 single-parent households (573 men, 3,276 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,026
| Here: | 19.8% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 369
| Here: | 15.9% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 512
| Here: | 25.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |