Boyer Valley township, Sac County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (18% naturalized citizens)
| Boyer Valley township: | 3.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
74% of Boyer Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% 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: 667
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 90
- South: 42
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $18,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 351
- One, attached: 3
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 15
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,200
Housing units in Boyer Valley township with a mortgage: 120 (12 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 99
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Food (14%)
- Construction (12%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (16%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Food processing workers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Food processing workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Boyer Valley township:
- German (54.3%)
- Irish (8.8%)
- English (8.5%)
- United States or American (8.5%)
- Polish (1.9%)
- Norwegian (1.7%)
- Dutch (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (39%)
- Brazil (33%)
- Canada (12%)
- Korea (9%)
- Germany (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 308 (75%)
- Carpooled: 59 (14%)
- Walked: 18 (4%)
- Worked at home: 28 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
92.8% of residents of Boyer Valley township speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
3.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 860- In family households: 735 (208 male householders, 34 female householders)
196 spouses, 275 children (253 natural, 7 adopted, 15 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 125 (38 male householders (32 living alone)), 65 female householders (54 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 122 2-persons, 39 3-persons, 44 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 86 1-person, 15 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
185 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (10 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 34.6% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |