Atchison township, Clinton County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Atchison township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
52% of Atchison 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, 78% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1438
- Northeast: 98
- Midwest: 242
- South: 104
- West: 46
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $33,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
79 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 627
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 33
- Mobile homes: 64
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,700
Housing units in Atchison township with a mortgage: 300 (36 second mortgage, 22 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 150
- Construction (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Air transportation (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Atchison township:
- United States or American (21.7%)
- German (20.6%)
- English (13.6%)
- Irish (11.6%)
- Italian (5.9%)
- French (except Basque) (3.4%)
- Scottish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 807 (78%)
- Carpooled: 139 (14%)
- Railroad: 3 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 55 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Utility gas (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Wood (3%)
79 people in nursing homes
97.8% of residents of Atchison township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (38% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 46% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,862- In family households: 1,650 (476 male householders, 64 female householders)
486 spouses, 578 children (494 natural, 9 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 11 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 212 (57 male householders (46 living alone)), 112 female householders (95 living alone)), 43 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 79 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 238 2-persons, 111 3-persons, 140 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 16 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 141 1-person, 20 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 4 5-persons,
390 married couples with children.
93 single-parent households (19 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
Here: | 5.9% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 1.7% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
Here: | 1.7% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |