Fairview township, Jones County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Fairview township: | 2.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Fairview township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 34% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5324
- Northeast: 520
- Midwest: 303
- South: 1165
- West: 229
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $127,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
People in group quarters in Fairview township, Iowa:
- 1,303 people in state prisons
- 71 people in nursing homes
- 14 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,787
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 1,266
Median worth of mobile homes: $47,900
Housing units in Fairview township with a mortgage: 1,011 (113 second mortgage, 195 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 291
- Construction (18%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairview township:
- United States or American (18.8%)
- English (8.5%)
- German (8.1%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.7%)
- Scottish (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (31%)
- Other Eastern Europe (19%)
- Honduras (17%)
- Dominican Republic (9%)
- Hungary (5%)
- Nicaragua (5%)
- Peru (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,944 (81%)
- Carpooled: 628 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 48 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (67%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Fairview township, Iowa:
- 1,303 people in state prisons
- 71 people in nursing homes
- 14 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
94.4% of residents of Fairview township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (77% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (39% speak English very well, 61% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 7,778- In family households: 6,967 (1,725 male householders, 454 female householders)
1,759 spouses, 2,526 children (2,336 natural, 39 adopted, 151 stepchildren), 144 grandchildren, 73 brothers or sisters, 51 parents, 66 other relatives, 169 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 811 (317 male householders (264 living alone)), 329 female householders (262 living alone)), 165 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 36 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 818 2-persons, 587 3-persons, 456 4-persons, 222 5-persons, 85 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 526 1-person, 99 2-persons, 16 3-persons, 5 5-persons,
996 married couples with children.
345 single-parent households (66 men, 279 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 78
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 54
| Here: | 11.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 18
| Here: | 9.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |