Greenfield township, Jones County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Greenfield township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
75% of Greenfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 545
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 63
- South: 5
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 224
- One, attached: 3
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $55,000
Housing units in Greenfield township with a mortgage: 84 (6 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 46
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (22%)
- Construction (19%)
- Food (9%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Food (18%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (20%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (16%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (11%)
- Waiters and waitresses (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Greenfield township:
- German (47.0%)
- United States or American (14.1%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- Czech (6.5%)
- English (6.5%)
- Dutch (5.2%)
- Scottish (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 242 (69%)
- Carpooled: 37 (10%)
- Walked: 13 (4%)
- Worked at home: 61 (17%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (44%)
- Utility gas (34%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Wood (1%)
98.0% of residents of Greenfield township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 642- In family households: 602 (171 male householders, 15 female householders)
178 spouses, 207 children (201 natural, 5 adopted, 1 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 9 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 40 (12 male householders (10 living alone)), 26 female householders (26 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 73 2-persons, 30 3-persons, 58 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 36 1-person, 2 2-persons,
140 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (6 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1
| Here: | 1.1% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
| Here: | 10.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |