Clay township, Shelby County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (91% naturalized citizens)
Clay township: | 2.4% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Clay township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% 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: 717
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 170
- South: 20
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $100,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
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
95 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 361
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,500
Housing units in Clay township with a mortgage: 107 (15 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 112
- Wood products (13%)
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (14%)
- Social assistance (11%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Other financial specialists (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clay township:
- Danish (48.5%)
- German (21.4%)
- United States or American (8.3%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- English (5.7%)
- Norwegian (2.8%)
- Swedish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (70%)
- Korea (13%)
- Germany (9%)
- Philippines (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 270 (66%)
- Carpooled: 45 (11%)
- Walked: 36 (9%)
- Worked at home: 56 (14%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
95 people in nursing homes
92.0% of residents of Clay township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
6.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 863- In family households: 751 (227 male householders, 50 female householders)
226 spouses, 232 children (221 natural, 3 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 4 other relatives, 7 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 112 (36 male householders (29 living alone)), 62 female householders (62 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 95 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 164 2-persons, 38 3-persons, 44 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 91 1-person, 2 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 5-persons,
169 married couples with children.
37 single-parent households (8 men, 29 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 3
Here: | 21.4% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |