Des Moines township, Polk County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Des Moines township: | 0.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Des Moines township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 41% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 378
- Northeast: 32
- Midwest: 116
- South: 59
- West: 49
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $35,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
People in group quarters in Des Moines township, Iowa:
- 2,222 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 902 people in nursing homes
- 473 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 450 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 245 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 238 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 140 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 104 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 100 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 82 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 53 people in state prisons
- 43 people in other group homes
- 41 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 28 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 15 people in institutions for the blind
- 14 people in religious group quarters
- 13 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 13 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 198
- Two: 14
- Mobile homes: 71
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,800
Housing units in Des Moines township with a mortgage: 32 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 58
- Construction (22%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Transportation equipment (11%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (9%)
- Food (6%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Health care (26%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (10%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Carpenters (9%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (8%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Des Moines township:
- United States or American (34.8%)
- German (28.3%)
- English (10.1%)
- Irish (7.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.6%)
- Polish (1.2%)
- Dutch (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Malaysia (53%)
- Germany (26%)
- Other Eastern Europe (21%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 181 (78%)
- Carpooled: 50 (21%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (39%)
- Wood (30%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Utility gas (6%)
People in group quarters in Des Moines township, Iowa:
- 2,222 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
- 902 people in nursing homes
- 473 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 450 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 245 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 238 people in wards in general hospitals for patients who have no usual home elsewhere
- 140 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 104 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 100 people in orthopedic wards and institutions for the physically handicapped
- 82 people in mental (psychiatric) hospitals or wards
- 53 people in state prisons
- 43 people in other group homes
- 41 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 28 people in hospitals or wards for drug/alcohol abuse
- 15 people in institutions for the blind
- 14 people in religious group quarters
- 13 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 13 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
97.6% of residents of Des Moines township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 655- In family households: 569 (174 male householders, 33 female householders)
175 spouses, 146 children (142 natural, 0 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 0 other relatives, 28 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 86 (29 male householders (17 living alone)), 43 female householders (43 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 129 2-persons, 23 3-persons, 48 4-persons, 4 5-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 60 1-person, 9 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
14,409 married couples with children.
6,407 single-parent households (1,271 men, 5,136 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |