Sedalia township, Pettis County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (18% naturalized citizens)
| Sedalia township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
50% of Sedalia township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 16849
- Northeast: 383
- Midwest: 2504
- South: 1693
- West: 1298
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $64,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.6%
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 Sedalia township, Missouri:
- 175 people in nursing homes
- 51 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 41 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 28 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 23 people in other group homes
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 8,018
- One, attached: 152
- Two: 456
- 3 or 4: 665
- 5 to 9: 297
- 10 to 19: 217
- 20 to 49: 299
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 702
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,200
Housing units in Sedalia township with a mortgage: 3,078 (230 second mortgage, 189 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,623
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sedalia township:
- German (27.0%)
- United States or American (19.0%)
- English (9.2%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (61%)
- El Salvador (9%)
- Guatemala (5%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
- India (3%)
- Canada (3%)
- Germany (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,547 (78%)
- Carpooled: 1,672 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 67 (1%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 20 (0%)
- Bicycle: 38 (0%)
- Walked: 214 (2%)
- Other means: 91 (1%)
- Worked at home: 294 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
People in group quarters in Sedalia township, Missouri:
- 175 people in nursing homes
- 51 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 41 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 28 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 23 people in other group homes
- 12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
94.2% of residents of Sedalia township speak English at home.
4.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 32% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 23,286- In family households: 18,876 (4,615 male householders, 1,645 female householders)
4,542 spouses, 6,576 children (5,991 natural, 90 adopted, 495 stepchildren), 410 grandchildren, 199 brothers or sisters, 139 parents, 178 other relatives, 572 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,410 (1,589 male householders (1,257 living alone)), 2,112 female householders (1,875 living alone)), 709 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 328 (222 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,801 2-persons, 1,451 3-persons, 1,233 4-persons, 470 5-persons, 209 6-persons, 96 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,132 1-person, 470 2-persons, 66 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 14 6-persons,
3,530 married couples with children.
1,763 single-parent households (360 men, 1,403 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 276
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 92
| Here: | 7.8% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 56
| Here: | 6.2% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |