Columbus City township, Louisa County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 17 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Columbus City township: | 17.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Columbus City township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1984
- Northeast: 32
- Midwest: 198
- South: 97
- West: 158
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
50 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 808
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 47
- 3 or 4: 57
- 5 to 9: 64
- 10 to 19: 19
- 20 to 49: 12
- Mobile homes: 152
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Columbus City township with a mortgage: 331 (10 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 209
- Construction (24%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (10%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Carpenters (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Child care workers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Columbus City township:
- German (18.8%)
- United States or American (15.5%)
- English (7.1%)
- Irish (6.2%)
- Welsh (5.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.1%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (90%)
- El Salvador (5%)
- Vietnam (1%)
- Other Eastern Africa (1%)
- Korea (1%)
- Cuba (1%)
- Germany (0%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,008 (73%)
- Carpooled: 287 (21%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 43 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Wood (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
50 people in nursing homes
70.4% of residents of Columbus City township speak English at home.
27.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (35% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (73% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,963- In family households: 2,598 (627 male householders, 154 female householders)
634 spouses, 977 children (928 natural, 11 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 32 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 60 other relatives, 63 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 365 (142 male householders (112 living alone)), 178 female householders (171 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 50 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 318 2-persons, 157 3-persons, 163 4-persons, 82 5-persons, 31 6-persons, 30 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 283 1-person, 34 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
633 married couples with children.
166 single-parent households (47 men, 119 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 1.2% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 19
| Here: | 21.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |