Rivers township, St. Charles County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (47% naturalized citizens)
| Rivers township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
59% of Rivers 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, 81% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4149
- Northeast: 138
- Midwest: 675
- South: 218
- West: 78
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,741
- One, attached: 199
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 36
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 33
- 20 to 49: 8
- Mobile homes: 323
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 30
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,000
Housing units in Rivers township with a mortgage: 767 (93 second mortgage, 70 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 505
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rivers township:
- German (46.2%)
- Irish (11.9%)
- United States or American (9.8%)
- French (except Basque) (7.2%)
- English (6.9%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Polish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (37%)
- United Kingdom (20%)
- Vietnam (20%)
- Philippines (17%)
- Argentina (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,208 (84%)
- Carpooled: 261 (10%)
- Subway or elevated: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 33 (1%)
- Worked at home: 122 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Utility gas (28%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
98.5% of residents of Rivers township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (37% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (29% speak English very well, 71% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,314- In family households: 4,691 (1,385 male householders, 166 female householders)
1,321 spouses, 1,588 children (1,459 natural, 15 adopted, 114 stepchildren), 74 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 24 other relatives, 87 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 623 (302 male householders (255 living alone)), 245 female householders (232 living alone)), 76 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 737 2-persons, 288 3-persons, 309 4-persons, 147 5-persons, 52 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 487 1-person, 38 2-persons, 19 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
945 married couples with children.
273 single-parent households (98 men, 175 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 74
| Here: | 13.5% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
| Here: | 12.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 41
| Here: | 25.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |