Delaware township, Delaware County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Delaware township: | 0.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
70% of Delaware 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, 80% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 400
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 26
- South: 36
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
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
People in group quarters in Delaware township, Iowa:
- 123 people in nursing homes
- 9 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 171
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 43
Median worth of mobile homes: $13,800
Housing units in Delaware township with a mortgage: 44 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 37
- Construction (25%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Paper (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Carpenters (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Delaware township:
- United States or American (50.3%)
- Irish (14.8%)
- German (10.4%)
- English (6.6%)
- Scottish (4.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Austrian (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 130 (77%)
- Carpooled: 38 (23%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (65%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (2%)
People in group quarters in Delaware township, Iowa:
- 123 people in nursing homes
- 9 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 3 people in religious group quarters
94.3% of residents of Delaware township speak English at home.
5.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 485- In family households: 402 (105 male householders, 22 female householders)
117 spouses, 137 children (97 natural, 5 adopted, 35 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 7 other relatives, 3 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 83 (33 male householders (22 living alone)), 35 female householders (31 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 55 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 24 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 53 1-person, 14 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
1,296 married couples with children.
355 single-parent households (80 men, 275 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: | 30.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |