Grant township, Kossuth County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 221 (28% naturalized citizens)
| Grant township: | 221.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
42% of Grant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 25% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3347
- Northeast: 798
- Midwest: 562
- South: 1452
- West: 249
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,230
- One, attached: 29
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 5
- 10 to 19: 7
- Mobile homes: 1,533
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,800
Housing units in Grant township with a mortgage: 684 (101 second mortgage, 41 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 157
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (23%)
- Food (12%)
- Machinery (12%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Food (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (16%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grant township:
- United States or American (18.5%)
- German (9.8%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- Italian (3.6%)
- English (3.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (57%)
- Germany (10%)
- Panama (8%)
- Guatemala (4%)
- Korea (3%)
- Cuba (3%)
- Canada (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,424 (80%)
- Carpooled: 490 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 25 (1%)
- Walked: 29 (1%)
- Other means: 51 (2%)
- Worked at home: 29 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (72%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
90.1% of residents of Grant township speak English at home.
6.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (71% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,927- In family households: 6,203 (1,445 male householders, 458 female householders)
1,494 spouses, 2,326 children (2,101 natural, 41 adopted, 184 stepchildren), 84 grandchildren, 39 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 95 other relatives, 232 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 724 (327 male householders (228 living alone)), 218 female householders (195 living alone)), 179 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 619 2-persons, 530 3-persons, 446 4-persons, 212 5-persons, 80 6-persons, 16 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 423 1-person, 101 2-persons, 15 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
38 married couples with children.
5 single-parent households (3 men, 2 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 0.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 11
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 4.6% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |