Camanche township, Clinton County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Camanche township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
66% of Camanche township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3610
- Northeast: 65
- Midwest: 514
- South: 55
- West: 78
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,427
- One, attached: 35
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 34
- 5 to 9: 88
- 10 to 19: 117
- 50 or more: 21
- Mobile homes: 214
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Camanche township with a mortgage: 680 (147 second mortgage, 51 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 502
- Construction (13%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Paper (8%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other protective service workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Camanche township:
- German (46.2%)
- United States or American (12.8%)
- Irish (10.7%)
- English (5.8%)
- Dutch (3.4%)
- Swedish (2.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (33%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (22%)
- Netherlands (18%)
- Yugoslavia (18%)
- Canada (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,904 (85%)
- Carpooled: 226 (10%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 49 (2%)
- Worked at home: 63 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
98.0% of residents of Camanche township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,391- In family households: 3,720 (1,070 male householders, 210 female householders)
1,073 spouses, 1,242 children (1,150 natural, 17 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 19 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 40 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 671 (247 male householders (214 living alone)), 340 female householders (290 living alone)), 84 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 653 2-persons, 238 3-persons, 256 4-persons, 98 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 504 1-person, 70 2-persons, 13 3-persons,
700 married couples with children.
225 single-parent households (48 men, 177 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 2.2% |
| 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: 77
| Here: | 35.5% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |