Center township, Dubuque County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% 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: 1056
- Northeast: 21
- Midwest: 99
- South: 179
- West: 62
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 502
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 2
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 150
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,300
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 104 (5 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 115
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Paper and paper products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (17%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electricians (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (29.6%)
- Irish (18.3%)
- English (11.1%)
- German (9.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- European (1.8%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (75%)
- Thailand (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 419 (70%)
- Carpooled: 135 (23%)
- Walked: 7 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 34 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (36%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Wood (16%)
- Solar energy (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
96.7% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (11% speak English very well, 89% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,429- In family households: 1,229 (377 male householders, 55 female householders)
366 spouses, 383 children (363 natural, 0 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 22 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 6 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 200 (85 male householders (76 living alone)), 98 female householders (91 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 215 2-persons, 122 3-persons, 61 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 167 1-person, 15 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
451 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (17 men, 14 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 5.6% |
| 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: 5
| Here: | 17.9% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |