Prairie township, Montgomery County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
75% of Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 726
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 80
- South: 37
- West: 28
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 341
- Mobile homes: 133
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,100
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 47 (0 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 38
- Construction (25%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (3%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Food processing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- German (35.5%)
- United States or American (20.8%)
- English (15.3%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- Polish (3.9%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- Italian (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 275 (72%)
- Carpooled: 61 (16%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 40 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Wood (9%)
97.0% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (26% speak English very well, 74% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 879- In family households: 723 (195 male householders, 52 female householders)
219 spouses, 227 children (225 natural, 0 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 0 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 156 (80 male householders (66 living alone)), 46 female householders (46 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 115 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 62 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 112 1-person, 5 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 8 5-persons,
180 married couples with children.
45 single-parent households (17 men, 28 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 9.2% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |