Crescent township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Crescent township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
70% of Crescent township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 80% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 32% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 659
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 366
- South: 24
- West: 49
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $125,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 415
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,600
Housing units in Crescent township with a mortgage: 184 (21 second mortgage, 36 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 83
- Construction (12%)
- Rail transportation (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Crescent township:
- German (42.6%)
- English (13.9%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- Danish (6.8%)
- United States or American (6.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.0%)
- Swedish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Romania (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 578 (84%)
- Carpooled: 52 (8%)
- Walked: 33 (5%)
- Worked at home: 25 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (62%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Wood (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
96.9% of residents of Crescent township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (72% speak English very well, 28% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,116- In family households: 1,014 (269 male householders, 69 female householders)
301 spouses, 323 children (309 natural, 5 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 9 other relatives, 7 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 102 (40 male householders (22 living alone)), 37 female householders (34 living alone)), 25 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 167 2-persons, 72 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 56 1-person, 19 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
243 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (5 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 32
| Here: | 25.8% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 6.7% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 17.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |