Dover township, Pocahontas County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Dover township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
84% of Dover township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 20% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 185
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 27
- South: 5
- West: 6
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 95
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 3
Housing units in Dover township with a mortgage: 14 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 41
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (21%)
- Food (18%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (12%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Recyclable material merchant wholesalers (9%)
- Repair and maintenance (9%)
- Health care (24%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (14%)
- Social assistance (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Chemicals (10%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (21%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (14%)
- Farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (11%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (9%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (24%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (20%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (14%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (12%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dover township:
- German (52.9%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Swedish (7.0%)
- Norwegian (5.8%)
- United States or American (4.7%)
- Danish (4.1%)
- New Zealander (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 63 (70%)
- Carpooled: 8 (9%)
- Walked: 4 (4%)
- Worked at home: 15 (17%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (60%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (34%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Other fuel (2%)
99.1% of residents of Dover township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 225- In family households: 210 (67 male householders, 8 female householders)
71 spouses, 56 children (50 natural, 0 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 3 other relatives, 3 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 15 (8 male householders (7 living alone)), 1 female householders (1 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 52 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 7 5-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 8 1-person, 1 4-persons,
48 married couples with children.
8 single-parent households (3 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 14
| Here: | 58.3% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 8.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 100.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |