German township, Kossuth County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| German township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
86% of German township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% 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: 184
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 29
- South: 6
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 1.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 88
Housing units in German township with a mortgage: 9 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 17
- Food (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Food (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in German township:
- German (71.2%)
- Norwegian (11.9%)
- English (5.6%)
- Danish (2.3%)
- Dutch (1.7%)
- Luxemburger (1.7%)
- Czechoslovakian (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 60 (51%)
- Carpooled: 22 (19%)
- Worked at home: 35 (30%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (56%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
95.1% of residents of German township speak English at home.
4.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 224- In family households: 199 (65 male householders, 0 female householders)
70 spouses, 64 children (61 natural, 0 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 25 (10 male householders (6 living alone)), 13 female householders (13 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 38 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 7 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 7 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 19 1-person, 4 2-persons,
71 married couples with children.
1 single-parent households (1 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |