Grant township, Pocahontas County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 440 (8% naturalized citizens)
| Grant township: | 440.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
52% of Grant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 25% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2198
- Northeast: 62
- Midwest: 615
- South: 582
- West: 496
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 1.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,268
- One, attached: 11
- Two: 52
- 3 or 4: 29
- 5 to 9: 48
- 10 to 19: 25
- 20 to 49: 17
- Mobile homes: 424
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,400
Housing units in Grant township with a mortgage: 401 (17 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 324
- Food (39%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Construction (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Food (37%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (20%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Food processing workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (20%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Food processing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grant township:
- United States or American (24.0%)
- German (8.3%)
- English (8.0%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Polish (1.8%)
- Scottish (1.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (64%)
- Guatemala (29%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (2%)
- El Salvador (1%)
- Germany (1%)
- Portugal (1%)
- Honduras (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,707 (75%)
- Carpooled: 347 (15%)
- Motorcycle: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 75 (3%)
- Other means: 19 (1%)
- Worked at home: 107 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Electricity (25%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Wood (6%)
75.5% of residents of Grant township speak English at home.
23.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (19% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 30% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 11% speak English not well, 11% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,835- In family households: 4,241 (1,015 male householders, 278 female householders)
975 spouses, 1,470 children (1,304 natural, 58 adopted, 108 stepchildren), 113 grandchildren, 69 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 129 other relatives, 170 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 594 (253 male householders (195 living alone)), 196 female householders (184 living alone)), 145 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 464 2-persons, 312 3-persons, 312 4-persons, 129 5-persons, 45 6-persons, 31 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 379 1-person, 39 2-persons, 9 3-persons, 10 4-persons, 8 5-persons, 4 6-persons,
41 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): 17
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
| Here: | 8.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 10.5% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |