Corydon township, Wayne County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (35% naturalized citizens)
| Corydon township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Corydon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3015
- Northeast: 211
- Midwest: 64
- South: 268
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
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
People in group quarters in Corydon township, Iowa:
- 75 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 870
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 36
- 3 or 4: 5
- 10 to 19: 9
- Mobile homes: 586
Median worth of mobile homes: $35,900
Housing units in Corydon township with a mortgage: 369 (58 second mortgage, 50 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 265
- Construction (16%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Corydon township:
- United States or American (39.5%)
- English (14.5%)
- Irish (4.2%)
- German (3.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- Italian (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (88%)
- Other Northern Europe (8%)
- United Kingdom (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,389 (82%)
- Carpooled: 210 (12%)
- Taxi: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 25 (1%)
- Other means: 22 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (49%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
People in group quarters in Corydon township, Iowa:
- 75 people in nursing homes
- 6 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 4 people in homes for the mentally retarded
96.0% of residents of Corydon township speak English at home.
3.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (27% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 32% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,625- In family households: 3,226 (767 male householders, 279 female householders)
854 spouses, 1,027 children (913 natural, 25 adopted, 89 stepchildren), 135 grandchildren, 38 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 72 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 399 (163 male householders (137 living alone)), 190 female householders (177 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 429 2-persons, 271 3-persons, 241 4-persons, 61 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 314 1-person, 39 2-persons,
241 married couples with children.
111 single-parent households (28 men, 83 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 1.4% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 9.7% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 16.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |