Grimes township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 173 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Grimes township: | 172.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Grimes township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 23574
- Northeast: 1146
- Midwest: 5451
- South: 6565
- West: 2332
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 13,304
- One, attached: 681
- Two: 767
- 3 or 4: 1,517
- 5 to 9: 1,393
- 10 to 19: 599
- 20 to 49: 436
- 50 or more: 1,306
- Mobile homes: 1,761
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 56
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,300
Housing units in Grimes township with a mortgage: 4,505 (280 second mortgage, 307 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 4,228
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Construction (12%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (14%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (17%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grimes township:
- United States or American (16.3%)
- English (12.2%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- German (11.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- Scottish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (25%)
- Yugoslavia (11%)
- Germany (10%)
- Other Eastern Europe (7%)
- Philippines (5%)
- El Salvador (5%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 12,494 (75%)
- Carpooled: 2,543 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 186 (1%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 20 (0%)
- Ferryboat: 6 (0%)
- Taxi: 133 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 31 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 606 (4%)
- Other means: 149 (1%)
- Worked at home: 471 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
93.2% of residents of Grimes township speak English at home.
3.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (52% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
2.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 9% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (63% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (80% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 39,224- In family households: 30,401 (7,512 male householders, 3,028 female householders)
7,540 spouses, 9,656 children (8,605 natural, 292 adopted, 759 stepchildren), 915 grandchildren, 323 brothers or sisters, 339 parents, 379 other relatives, 709 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 8,823 (2,991 male householders (2,486 living alone)), 4,771 female householders (4,379 living alone)), 1,061 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 1,585 (1,152 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 5,475 2-persons, 2,304 3-persons, 1,673 4-persons, 726 5-persons, 204 6-persons, 158 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 6,865 1-person, 796 2-persons, 85 3-persons, 16 4-persons,
146 married couples with children.
30 single-parent households (5 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 234
| Here: | 5.8% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 138
| Here: | 7.4% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 166
| Here: | 13.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |