Smithton township, Pettis County, Missouri (MO) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (44% naturalized citizens)
| Smithton township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 2.7% |
56% of Smithton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Missouri.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2100
- Northeast: 40
- Midwest: 341
- South: 123
- West: 131
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $49,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
208 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 847
- One, attached: 67
- Two: 17
- 3 or 4: 34
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 61
Median worth of mobile homes: $67,100
Housing units in Smithton township with a mortgage: 453 (26 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 201
- Health care (9%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Construction (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Smithton township:
- German (29.7%)
- United States or American (18.6%)
- English (12.0%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- Scottish (3.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (33%)
- Germany (25%)
- Philippines (25%)
- Ghana (17%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,003 (83%)
- Carpooled: 135 (11%)
- Ferryboat: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 15 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (45%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Utility gas (22%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
208 people in nursing homes
98.4% of residents of Smithton township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (62% speak English very well, 15% speak English not well, 23% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,557- In family households: 2,293 (570 male householders, 184 female householders)
556 spouses, 872 children (782 natural, 33 adopted, 57 stepchildren), 41 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 6 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 264 (61 male householders (46 living alone)), 164 female householders (147 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 214 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 304 2-persons, 223 3-persons, 130 4-persons, 66 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 193 1-person, 30 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
502 married couples with children.
224 single-parent households (66 men, 158 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 21
| Here: | 5.9% |
| Missouri: | 13.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Missouri: | 11.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Missouri: | 24.9% |