Garfield township, Kossuth County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 10 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Garfield township: | 9.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Garfield 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, 49% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1286
- Northeast: 30
- Midwest: 228
- South: 294
- West: 258
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 645
- One, attached: 26
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 6
- Mobile homes: 175
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,500
Housing units in Garfield township with a mortgage: 248 (12 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 120
- Construction (15%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garfield township:
- United States or American (29.6%)
- English (14.4%)
- German (13.8%)
- Irish (10.7%)
- European (2.0%)
- Dutch (1.7%)
- French (except Basque) (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (54%)
- Germany (15%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (15%)
- Netherlands (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 935 (83%)
- Carpooled: 134 (12%)
- Taxi: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 46 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Wood (9%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.4% of residents of Garfield township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 34% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English well, 50% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,135- In family households: 1,904 (509 male householders, 111 female householders)
539 spouses, 635 children (553 natural, 7 adopted, 75 stepchildren), 23 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 12 other relatives, 47 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 231 (70 male householders (52 living alone)), 115 female householders (89 living alone)), 46 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 293 2-persons, 132 3-persons, 107 4-persons, 57 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 141 1-person, 40 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
83 married couples with children.
4 single-parent households (2 men, 2 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 0.7% |
| 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: 8
| Here: | 12.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |