Giard township, Clayton County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (28% naturalized citizens)
| Giard township: | 12.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
51% of Giard 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, 52% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2079
- Northeast: 33
- Midwest: 352
- South: 607
- West: 178
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $88,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 901
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 51
- 10 to 19: 174
- 50 or more: 21
- Mobile homes: 97
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,500
Housing units in Giard township with a mortgage: 442 (83 second mortgage, 23 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 233
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (34%)
- Construction (8%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Apparel, fabrics, and notions merchant wholesalers (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (30%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (14%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (14%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Giard township:
- United States or American (26.0%)
- German (18.2%)
- Irish (11.9%)
- English (8.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.7%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (72%)
- Germany (19%)
- Afghanistan (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,358 (86%)
- Carpooled: 159 (10%)
- Bicycle: 22 (1%)
- Walked: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 18 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Utility gas (46%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
96.8% of residents of Giard township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,163- In family households: 2,799 (833 male householders, 157 female householders)
856 spouses, 851 children (728 natural, 39 adopted, 84 stepchildren), 32 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 30 other relatives, 40 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 364 (86 male householders (72 living alone)), 204 female householders (180 living alone)), 74 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 186 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 472 2-persons, 260 3-persons, 156 4-persons, 100 5-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 252 1-person, 24 2-persons, 14 4-persons,
119 married couples with children.
18 single-parent households (5 men, 13 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 23
| Here: | 7.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 9.4% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 90
| Here: | 51.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |