Cedar township, Pocahontas County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (29% naturalized citizens)
| Cedar township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
71% of Cedar township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 688
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 63
- South: 1
- West: 7
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
36 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 347
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 17
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,500
Housing units in Cedar township with a mortgage: 77 (3 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 156
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Food (15%)
- Construction (6%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Warehousing and storage (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (35%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cedar township:
- German (50.7%)
- Irish (15.3%)
- United States or American (11.1%)
- English (4.9%)
- Swedish (3.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
- Swiss (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 245 (77%)
- Carpooled: 36 (11%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 24 (8%)
- Worked at home: 12 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Wood (2%)
36 people in nursing homes
96.6% of residents of Cedar township speak English at home.
3.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (35% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 43% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 737- In family households: 586 (158 male householders, 34 female householders)
164 spouses, 209 children (178 natural, 10 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 1 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 151 (68 male householders (62 living alone)), 74 female householders (74 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 36 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 86 2-persons, 41 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 136 1-person, 5 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
160 married couples with children.
36 single-parent households (11 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 47
| Here: | 49.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |