Bloomfield township, Polk County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (35% naturalized citizens)
| Bloomfield township: | 5.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Bloomfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 21834
- Northeast: 295
- Midwest: 2837
- South: 949
- West: 824
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $91,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
People in group quarters in Bloomfield township, Iowa:
- 236 people in halfway houses
- 156 people in nursing homes
- 91 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 25 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,122
- One, attached: 225
- Two: 370
- 3 or 4: 146
- 5 to 9: 392
- 10 to 19: 400
- 20 to 49: 1,347
- 50 or more: 372
- Mobile homes: 1,656
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,900
Housing units in Bloomfield township with a mortgage: 4,472 (409 second mortgage, 566 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,635
- Construction (15%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Food (3%)
- Finance and insurance (20%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bloomfield township:
- German (20.8%)
- United States or American (12.3%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- English (8.8%)
- Italian (7.0%)
- Norwegian (4.6%)
- Dutch (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- Laos (20%)
- Korea (6%)
- Guatemala (4%)
- Pakistan (2%)
- Canada (2%)
- Vietnam (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 11,987 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,727 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 268 (2%)
- Taxi: 15 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 120 (1%)
- Other means: 62 (0%)
- Worked at home: 204 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Bloomfield township, Iowa:
- 236 people in halfway houses
- 156 people in nursing homes
- 91 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 25 people in homes for the mentally retarded
91.7% of residents of Bloomfield township speak English at home.
4.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 18% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
2.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (62% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 27,770- In family households: 22,679 (5,448 male householders, 1,863 female householders)
5,567 spouses, 8,193 children (7,534 natural, 174 adopted, 485 stepchildren), 346 grandchildren, 196 brothers or sisters, 200 parents, 318 other relatives, 548 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 5,091 (1,681 male householders (1,230 living alone)), 2,400 female householders (2,030 living alone)), 1,010 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 508 (370 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,126 2-persons, 1,713 3-persons, 1,527 4-persons, 639 5-persons, 222 6-persons, 84 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,260 1-person, 682 2-persons, 105 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 15 5-persons,
4,506 married couples with children.
1,898 single-parent households (417 men, 1,481 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 173
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 98
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 270
| Here: | 30.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |