Blue Grass township, Scott County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Blue Grass township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
68% of Blue Grass township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 164
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 30
- South: 44
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $26,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 147
- Mobile homes: 45
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Blue Grass township with a mortgage: 5 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 20
- Construction (37%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (17%)
- Wood products (13%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (18%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (18%)
- Carpenters (12%)
- Secondary school teachers (7%)
- Art and design workers (7%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (17%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (13%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (11%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Blue Grass township:
- United States or American (41.4%)
- German (25.7%)
- Irish (10.5%)
- French (except Basque) (5.9%)
- Swiss (3.3%)
- English (2.6%)
- Dutch (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 62 (51%)
- Carpooled: 41 (34%)
- Worked at home: 18 (15%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (74%)
- Wood (19%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Utility gas (2%)
92.5% of residents of Blue Grass township speak English at home.
7.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 259- In family households: 220 (79 male householders, 9 female householders)
81 spouses, 44 children (44 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 39 (18 male householders (13 living alone)), 15 female householders (15 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 61 2-persons, 15 3-persons, 12 4-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 28 1-person, 5 2-persons,
665 married couples with children.
203 single-parent households (35 men, 168 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |