Roaring River township, Barry County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (61% naturalized citizens)
| Roaring River township: | 6.0% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
56% of Roaring River township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 28% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 15% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 379
- Northeast: 81
- Midwest: 394
- South: 418
- West: 193
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $77,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.8% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 813
- Two: 10
- Mobile homes: 218
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $39,700
Housing units in Roaring River township with a mortgage: 253 (27 second mortgage, 1 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 126
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Construction (12%)
- Food (12%)
- Health care (6%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Food (14%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Communications equipment operators (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Roaring River township:
- Irish (20.6%)
- German (19.6%)
- United States or American (19.6%)
- English (12.1%)
- Dutch (4.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.5%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (70%)
- Netherlands (15%)
- Other Western Europe (10%)
- Iraq (2%)
- Canada (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 411 (68%)
- Carpooled: 137 (23%)
- Walked: 20 (3%)
- Other means: 11 (2%)
- Worked at home: 24 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (51%)
- Electricity (32%)
- Wood (15%)
- Utility gas (2%)
93.2% of residents of Roaring River township speak English at home.
4.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 34% don't speak English at all).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (54% speak English very well, 46% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,549- In family households: 1,354 (422 male householders, 55 female householders)
442 spouses, 390 children (329 natural, 0 adopted, 61 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 28 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 195 (81 male householders (73 living alone)), 75 female householders (54 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 291 2-persons, 87 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 26 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 127 1-person, 29 2-persons,
185 married couples with children.
62 single-parent households (20 men, 42 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 20
| Here: | 11.2% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 16
| Here: | 31.4% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |