Clayton township, Taylor County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 561 (28% naturalized citizens)
| Clayton township: | 560.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
50% of Clayton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 35% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 13454
- Northeast: 2742
- Midwest: 1530
- South: 3580
- West: 632
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $87,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,631
- One, attached: 164
- Two: 167
- 3 or 4: 217
- 5 to 9: 447
- 10 to 19: 413
- 20 to 49: 43
- 50 or more: 101
- Mobile homes: 1,182
Median worth of mobile homes: $61,800
Housing units in Clayton township with a mortgage: 3,519 (281 second mortgage, 757 home equity loan, 15 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,344
- Accommodation and food services (23%)
- Construction (13%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (26%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (8%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (7%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Art and design workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clayton township:
- United States or American (22.7%)
- German (13.6%)
- Irish (8.9%)
- English (8.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.4%)
- Italian (3.9%)
- Polish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- Canada (17%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Germany (6%)
- Japan (4%)
- Philippines (4%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,223 (84%)
- Carpooled: 1,413 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 31 (0%)
- Taxi: 16 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 18 (0%)
- Bicycle: 28 (0%)
- Walked: 73 (1%)
- Other means: 73 (1%)
- Worked at home: 145 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Utility gas (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
96.6% of residents of Clayton township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 33% speak English not well, 5% don't speak English at all).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (12% speak English very well, 50% speak English well, 37% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 22,391- In family households: 19,450 (4,757 male householders, 1,495 female householders)
5,004 spouses, 7,110 children (6,486 natural, 200 adopted, 424 stepchildren), 354 grandchildren, 140 brothers or sisters, 131 parents, 173 other relatives, 286 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,941 (1,200 male householders (907 living alone)), 1,246 female householders (1,135 living alone)), 495 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 337 (322 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,427 2-persons, 1,541 3-persons, 1,450 4-persons, 589 5-persons, 181 6-persons, 64 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,042 1-person, 333 2-persons, 53 3-persons, 18 4-persons,
26 married couples with children.
4 single-parent households (2 men, 2 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 71
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 19
| Here: | 1.6% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 126
| Here: | 21.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |