Roark township, Gasconade County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Roark township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
62% of Roark township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3127
- Northeast: 59
- Midwest: 344
- South: 225
- West: 150
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
147 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,433
- One, attached: 45
- Two: 89
- 3 or 4: 101
- 5 to 9: 82
- 10 to 19: 9
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 126
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,300
Housing units in Roark township with a mortgage: 462 (15 second mortgage, 55 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 402
- Construction (16%)
- Plastics and rubber products (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Roark township:
- German (59.8%)
- United States or American (9.9%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- English (6.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.3%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,491 (79%)
- Carpooled: 226 (12%)
- Walked: 53 (3%)
- Other means: 16 (1%)
- Worked at home: 102 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (36%)
- Utility gas (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- No fuel used (1%)
147 people in nursing homes
95.5% of residents of Roark township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (30% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 41% don't speak English at all).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (54% speak English very well, 32% speak English well, 14% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,800- In family households: 3,204 (922 male householders, 172 female householders)
938 spouses, 1,082 children (1,001 natural, 6 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 27 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 7 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 596 (221 male householders (198 living alone)), 337 female householders (328 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 147 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 575 2-persons, 200 3-persons, 214 4-persons, 68 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 526 1-person, 30 2-persons, 2 5-persons,
705 married couples with children.
167 single-parent households (50 men, 117 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 122
| Here: | 28.6% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |