Grant township, Story County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 47 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Grant township: | 46.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Grant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 72% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 19281
- Northeast: 1304
- Midwest: 463
- South: 1665
- West: 151
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $63,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,650
- One, attached: 657
- Two: 851
- 3 or 4: 597
- 5 to 9: 914
- 10 to 19: 170
- 20 to 49: 119
- 50 or more: 434
- Mobile homes: 682
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,600
Housing units in Grant township with a mortgage: 2,704 (374 second mortgage, 467 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,605
- Construction (10%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Health care (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grant township:
- English (9.2%)
- United States or American (8.6%)
- Irish (2.6%)
- German (1.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.4%)
- Scottish (1.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (25%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- India (6%)
- Vietnam (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Laos (5%)
- Jamaica (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,503 (77%)
- Carpooled: 1,361 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 8 (0%)
- Taxi: 115 (1%)
- Bicycle: 22 (0%)
- Walked: 193 (2%)
- Other means: 76 (1%)
- Worked at home: 140 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (46%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
95.9% of residents of Grant township speak English at home.
2.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (65% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 22% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (55% speak English very well, 45% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 22,190- In family households: 18,146 (3,367 male householders, 2,579 female householders)
3,511 spouses, 6,591 children (6,144 natural, 201 adopted, 246 stepchildren), 851 grandchildren, 259 brothers or sisters, 242 parents, 324 other relatives, 422 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,044 (1,383 male householders (1,150 living alone)), 2,326 female householders (2,233 living alone)), 335 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,274 (1,036 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,633 2-persons, 1,624 3-persons, 1,009 4-persons, 404 5-persons, 218 6-persons, 58 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,383 1-person, 292 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
242 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (4 men, 19 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 176
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 126
| Here: | 8.4% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 86
| Here: | 10.5% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |