Ell township, Hancock County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Ell township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Ell township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 687
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 41
- South: 3
- West: 77
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $25,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 344
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 23
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $81,700
Housing units in Ell township with a mortgage: 90 (8 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 98
- Construction (22%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Lumber and other construction materials merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Private households (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- U. S. Postal service (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (7%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (7%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (14%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ell township:
- German (53.8%)
- Norwegian (13.5%)
- United States or American (11.5%)
- English (2.8%)
- Irish (2.5%)
- Swedish (2.5%)
- Portuguese (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 276 (74%)
- Carpooled: 55 (15%)
- Bicycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (6%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Other fuel (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (1%)
97.9% of residents of Ell township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 14% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 830- In family households: 723 (209 male householders, 38 female householders)
203 spouses, 225 children (212 natural, 8 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 7 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 107 (38 male householders (28 living alone)), 51 female householders (45 living alone)), 18 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 135 2-persons, 38 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 29 5-persons, 8 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 73 1-person, 14 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
204 married couples with children.
20 single-parent households (7 men, 13 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 2.1% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |