Kearney township, Clay County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Kearney township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
55% of Kearney township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 6893
- Northeast: 168
- Midwest: 2112
- South: 577
- West: 394
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $171,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
51 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,236
- One, attached: 131
- Two: 115
- 3 or 4: 99
- 5 to 9: 48
- 10 to 19: 26
- 20 to 49: 47
- 50 or more: 18
Housing units in Kearney township with a mortgage: 1,986 (150 second mortgage, 181 home equity loan, 13 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 560
- Construction (11%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Air transportation (4%)
- Utilities (3%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kearney township:
- German (25.5%)
- English (16.4%)
- United States or American (13.9%)
- Irish (10.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.8%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (39%)
- United Kingdom (16%)
- Italy (16%)
- Hungary (13%)
- Lebanon (8%)
- Japan (3%)
- Korea (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,481 (87%)
- Carpooled: 496 (10%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 40 (1%)
- Other means: 21 (0%)
- Worked at home: 138 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Wood (1%)
51 people in nursing homes
97.8% of residents of Kearney township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,167- In family households: 9,450 (2,587 male householders, 398 female householders)
2,519 spouses, 3,550 children (3,209 natural, 81 adopted, 260 stepchildren), 101 grandchildren, 45 brothers or sisters, 35 parents, 68 other relatives, 147 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 717 (288 male householders (241 living alone)), 340 female householders (311 living alone)), 89 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 51 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 1,129 2-persons, 620 3-persons, 846 4-persons, 252 5-persons, 113 6-persons, 25 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 552 1-person, 64 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
2,603 married couples with children.
410 single-parent households (93 men, 317 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 89
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 0.9% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 47
| Here: | 19.7% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |