Garden township, Boone County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (79% naturalized citizens)
| Garden township: | 2.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Garden township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 22% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 939
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 77
- South: 30
- West: 5
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 356
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 7
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 54
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,000
Housing units in Garden township with a mortgage: 147 (5 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 72
- Construction (18%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- U. S. Postal service (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Finance and insurance (18%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garden township:
- German (35.1%)
- English (9.4%)
- United States or American (7.8%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- Norwegian (7.4%)
- Swedish (5.6%)
- Italian (4.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Belarus (46%)
- United Kingdom (29%)
- Italy (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 477 (77%)
- Carpooled: 95 (15%)
- Bicycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 12 (2%)
- Worked at home: 29 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (31%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Solar energy (1%)
96.7% of residents of Garden township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,104- In family households: 1,015 (294 male householders, 51 female householders)
286 spouses, 332 children (314 natural, 0 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 13 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 4 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 89 (55 male householders (47 living alone)), 22 female householders (19 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 162 2-persons, 91 3-persons, 72 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 66 1-person, 11 2-persons,
208 married couples with children.
38 single-parent households (10 men, 28 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 30
| Here: | 60.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |