Harlan township, Page County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (78% naturalized citizens)
| Harlan township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
75% of Harlan township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 295
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 47
- South: 9
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $31,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 167
- Mobile homes: 13
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,500
Housing units in Harlan township with a mortgage: 47 (3 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 45
- Metal and metal products (33%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Metal and metal products (17%)
- Health care (14%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Book stores and news dealers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Librarians, curators, and archivists (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Harlan township:
- German (36.2%)
- United States or American (16.6%)
- English (9.1%)
- Scottish (6.8%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- Swedish (5.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (56%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (22%)
- Mexico (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 161 (86%)
- Carpooled: 18 (10%)
- Walked: 1 (1%)
- Worked at home: 7 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (74%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Wood (4%)
95.2% of residents of Harlan township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
4.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 377- In family households: 314 (89 male householders, 16 female householders)
95 spouses, 108 children (93 natural, 2 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 63 (28 male householders (25 living alone)), 31 female householders (31 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 56 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 8 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 56 1-person, 3 2-persons,
92 married couples with children.
13 single-parent households (3 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 38.8% |
| 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: 3
| Here: | 30.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |