St. Francois township, Wayne County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| St. Francois township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
63% of St. Francois township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1518
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 159
- South: 224
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $21,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
37 people in nursing homes
3 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 752
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 23
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 232
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,600
Housing units in St. Francois township with a mortgage: 125 (0 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 199
- Construction (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Food (6%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (11%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in St. Francois township:
- United States or American (28.1%)
- German (23.2%)
- English (14.0%)
- Irish (12.4%)
- Dutch (1.5%)
- Scottish (1.3%)
- Polish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 470 (75%)
- Carpooled: 96 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (2%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 21 (3%)
- Worked at home: 25 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (44%)
- Wood (22%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Utility gas (14%)
37 people in nursing homes
3 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
98.5% of residents of St. Francois township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,897- In family households: 1,573 (414 male householders, 102 female householders)
445 spouses, 505 children (438 natural, 3 adopted, 64 stepchildren), 68 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 15 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 324 (123 male householders (115 living alone)), 177 female householders (170 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 40 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 252 2-persons, 113 3-persons, 112 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 285 1-person, 13 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
307 married couples with children.
103 single-parent households (28 men, 75 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 2.1% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |