Shawnee township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Shawnee township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
63% of Shawnee township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2853
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 327
- South: 183
- West: 39
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,042
- One, attached: 20
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 35
- Mobile homes: 285
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 15
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,200
Housing units in Shawnee township with a mortgage: 436 (31 second mortgage, 75 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 168
- Construction (17%)
- Paper (7%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (27%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Paper (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shawnee township:
- German (49.2%)
- United States or American (19.9%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- English (6.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.2%)
- Austrian (1.6%)
- Scottish (1.3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,460 (83%)
- Carpooled: 223 (13%)
- Walked: 24 (1%)
- Worked at home: 45 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Utility gas (19%)
- Wood (12%)
97.1% of residents of Shawnee township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,445- In family households: 3,133 (888 male householders, 123 female householders)
933 spouses, 1,055 children (923 natural, 25 adopted, 107 stepchildren), 58 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 11 other relatives, 50 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 312 (182 male householders (155 living alone)), 83 female householders (69 living alone)), 47 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 406 2-persons, 260 3-persons, 222 4-persons, 92 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 224 1-person, 36 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
776 married couples with children.
108 single-parent households (29 men, 79 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 99
| Here: | 24.5% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 23
| Here: | 11.6% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 3.6% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |