Center township, Emmet County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 38 (45% naturalized citizens)
| Center township: | 38.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
47% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3048
- Northeast: 567
- Midwest: 383
- South: 770
- West: 131
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $344,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.8% of all households
124 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,807
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 9
- Mobile homes: 100
Median worth of mobile homes: $81,900
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 1,159 (149 second mortgage, 284 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 236
- Construction (12%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cashiers (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (22.7%)
- English (17.4%)
- German (10.0%)
- Irish (7.9%)
- Italian (5.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.6%)
- Polish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (32%)
- Egypt (15%)
- Asia, n.e.c. (11%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Other Western Europe (7%)
- Korea (6%)
- Sierra Leone (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,349 (88%)
- Carpooled: 136 (5%)
- Walked: 8 (0%)
- Other means: 10 (0%)
- Worked at home: 166 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (49%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (2%)
124 people in training schools for juvenile delinquents
93.6% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English not well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (47% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 44% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,090- In family households: 4,748 (1,436 male householders, 160 female householders)
1,470 spouses, 1,525 children (1,405 natural, 58 adopted, 62 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 25 parents, 44 other relatives, 50 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 342 (153 male householders (116 living alone)), 131 female householders (125 living alone)), 58 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 698 2-persons, 364 3-persons, 379 4-persons, 134 5-persons, 21 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 241 1-person, 31 2-persons, 12 4-persons,
64 married couples with children.
4 single-parent households (1 men, 3 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 141
| Here: | 20.8% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 11.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 15.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |