Fort Osage township, Jackson County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Fort Osage township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
65% of Fort Osage township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4498
- Northeast: 114
- Midwest: 746
- South: 468
- West: 294
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $71,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,932
- One, attached: 18
- Two: 53
- 3 or 4: 89
- 5 to 9: 15
- 10 to 19: 10
- 20 to 49: 31
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 154
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,700
Housing units in Fort Osage township with a mortgage: 866 (82 second mortgage, 75 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 421
- Construction (18%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fort Osage township:
- German (27.3%)
- United States or American (18.9%)
- English (13.1%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- French (except Basque) (3.7%)
- Italian (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- Germany (19%)
- Vietnam (13%)
- Italy (6%)
- Iran (6%)
- Polynesia (6%)
- Canada (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,565 (87%)
- Carpooled: 246 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Taxi: 11 (0%)
- Walked: 13 (0%)
- Other means: 29 (1%)
- Worked at home: 96 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (44%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.8% of residents of Fort Osage township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (25% speak English very well, 75% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,182- In family households: 5,638 (1,525 male householders, 253 female householders)
1,463 spouses, 1,997 children (1,797 natural, 45 adopted, 155 stepchildren), 157 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 59 parents, 106 other relatives, 67 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 544 (221 male householders (163 living alone)), 211 female householders (187 living alone)), 112 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 713 2-persons, 429 3-persons, 380 4-persons, 170 5-persons, 59 6-persons, 27 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 350 1-person, 66 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 1 6-persons,
1,202 married couples with children.
303 single-parent households (93 men, 210 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 86
| Here: | 10.5% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 48
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 28
| Here: | 12.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |