Eldridge township, Laclede County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Eldridge township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
68% of Eldridge township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 42% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 806
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 1000
- South: 120
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 742
- One, attached: 10
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 1
- Mobile homes: 137
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,800
Housing units in Eldridge township with a mortgage: 300 (24 second mortgage, 19 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 226
- Construction (15%)
- Machinery (13%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Health care (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Machinery (20%)
- Personal and laundry services (13%)
- Plastics and rubber products (11%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (11%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (8%)
- Construction (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Woodworkers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Personal appearance workers (13%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (13%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Eldridge township:
- United States or American (43.6%)
- German (17.1%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- English (9.5%)
- Dutch (4.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- Scottish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Japan (50%)
- Korea (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 773 (86%)
- Carpooled: 78 (9%)
- Walked: 18 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 23 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (59%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Utility gas (2%)
99.2% of residents of Eldridge township speak English at home.
0.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,989- In family households: 1,717 (523 male householders, 66 female householders)
493 spouses, 591 children (483 natural, 24 adopted, 84 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 13 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 272 (90 male householders (70 living alone)), 150 female householders (143 living alone)), 32 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 271 2-persons, 149 3-persons, 107 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 213 1-person, 23 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
173 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (4 men, 20 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): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
Here: | 9.8% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |