Grange township, Woodbury County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 29 (25% naturalized citizens)
| Grange township: | 28.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
57% of Grange township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 45% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3999
- Northeast: 33
- Midwest: 494
- South: 732
- West: 357
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $28,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,407
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 32
- 3 or 4: 15
- 5 to 9: 26
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 815
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 26
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,900
Housing units in Grange township with a mortgage: 534 (28 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 345
- Construction (15%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Warehousing and storage (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grange township:
- United States or American (36.2%)
- German (12.7%)
- Irish (12.7%)
- English (8.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.6%)
- Italian (1.5%)
- Greek (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (97%)
- Germany (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,963 (79%)
- Carpooled: 397 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 53 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (40%)
- Utility gas (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Wood (7%)
96.1% of residents of Grange township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (61% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (38% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 52% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,527- In family households: 4,980 (1,353 male householders, 271 female householders)
1,289 spouses, 1,730 children (1,502 natural, 47 adopted, 181 stepchildren), 120 grandchildren, 30 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 71 other relatives, 86 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 547 (227 male householders (191 living alone)), 272 female householders (260 living alone)), 48 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 160 (152 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 692 2-persons, 427 3-persons, 334 4-persons, 109 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 451 1-person, 45 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
47 married couples with children.
6 single-parent households (1 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 2.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 3.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 20.5% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |