Grant township, Page County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (46% naturalized citizens)
| Grant township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Grant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4078
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 1330
- South: 174
- West: 232
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
140 people in nursing homes
23 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,187
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 92
- 3 or 4: 130
- 5 to 9: 61
- 10 to 19: 13
- 20 to 49: 112
- 50 or more: 140
- Mobile homes: 66
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Grant township with a mortgage: 787 (60 second mortgage, 64 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 757
- Transportation equipment (17%)
- Construction (10%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grant township:
- German (25.0%)
- Irish (14.9%)
- United States or American (12.5%)
- English (12.2%)
- Swedish (8.0%)
- Dutch (4.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (24%)
- El Salvador (22%)
- Germany (20%)
- Cuba (15%)
- United Kingdom (11%)
- Korea (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,216 (83%)
- Carpooled: 220 (8%)
- Taxi: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 131 (5%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 100 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (84%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
140 people in nursing homes
23 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.4% of residents of Grant township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,736- In family households: 4,740 (1,307 male householders, 376 female householders)
1,339 spouses, 1,507 children (1,418 natural, 27 adopted, 62 stepchildren), 47 grandchildren, 48 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 24 other relatives, 77 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 996 (336 male householders (297 living alone)), 590 female householders (570 living alone)), 70 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 163 (140 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 927 2-persons, 328 3-persons, 272 4-persons, 112 5-persons, 29 6-persons, 15 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 867 1-person, 57 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
905 married couples with children.
339 single-parent households (73 men, 266 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): 11
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 23
| Here: | 20.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |