Rush township, Buchanan County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (60% naturalized citizens)
Rush township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 2.7% |
59% of Rush township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 19% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 407
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 402
- South: 35
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.9% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 319
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 79
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,800
Housing units in Rush township with a mortgage: 83 (6 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 97
- Metal and metal products (16%)
- Construction (13%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Air transportation (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rush township:
- United States or American (28.7%)
- German (24.0%)
- Irish (14.4%)
- English (8.6%)
- Polish (3.6%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (60%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 318 (81%)
- Carpooled: 55 (14%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (2%)
- Worked at home: 8 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (59%)
- Electricity (32%)
- Wood (6%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
97.5% of residents of Rush township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 865- In family households: 733 (196 male householders, 42 female householders)
203 spouses, 257 children (220 natural, 11 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 1 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 132 (57 male householders (45 living alone)), 53 female householders (45 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 96 2-persons, 54 3-persons, 50 4-persons, 30 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 90 1-person, 16 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
171 married couples with children.
42 single-parent households (21 men, 21 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
Here: | 8.8% |
Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 5.5% |
Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
Here: | 12.5% |
Missouri: | 24.9% |