Fox township, Platte County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Fox township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
53% of Fox township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5993
- Northeast: 400
- Midwest: 3252
- South: 947
- West: 561
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $98,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
27 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,273
- One, attached: 525
- Two: 198
- 3 or 4: 136
- 5 to 9: 75
- 10 to 19: 181
- 20 to 49: 267
- 50 or more: 250
Housing units in Fox township with a mortgage: 2,549 (234 second mortgage, 281 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 696
- Construction (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Air transportation (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (11%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fox township:
- German (25.0%)
- Irish (13.7%)
- English (11.4%)
- United States or American (9.3%)
- Italian (3.7%)
- Dutch (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (11%)
- Korea (10%)
- Belarus (8%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (7%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- India (6%)
- Netherlands (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,425 (86%)
- Carpooled: 489 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 19 (0%)
- Taxi: 13 (0%)
- Bicycle: 13 (0%)
- Walked: 110 (2%)
- Other means: 28 (0%)
- Worked at home: 176 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (83%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
27 people in other nonhousehold living situations
94.7% of residents of Fox township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (78% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (30% speak English very well, 67% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,532- In family households: 9,653 (2,574 male householders, 591 female householders)
2,615 spouses, 3,399 children (3,110 natural, 70 adopted, 219 stepchildren), 82 grandchildren, 42 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 95 other relatives, 213 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,879 (631 male householders (471 living alone)), 931 female householders (822 living alone)), 317 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 27 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,282 2-persons, 771 3-persons, 762 4-persons, 248 5-persons, 83 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,293 1-person, 221 2-persons, 41 3-persons, 7 4-persons,
2,280 married couples with children.
565 single-parent households (107 men, 458 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 230
| Here: | 17.8% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 53
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 90
| Here: | 23.1% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |