High Lake township, Emmet County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| High Lake township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
78% of High Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 396
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 84
- South: 1
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 206
- Mobile homes: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in High Lake township with a mortgage: 45 (2 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 54
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Food (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Construction (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (19%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in High Lake township:
- German (38.7%)
- Norwegian (27.5%)
- Irish (8.6%)
- United States or American (5.7%)
- Dutch (4.9%)
- English (4.9%)
- Swedish (3.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Australia (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 207 (87%)
- Carpooled: 10 (4%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 16 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (49%)
- Utility gas (37%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (2%)
97.0% of residents of High Lake township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 495- In family households: 446 (125 male householders, 12 female householders)
136 spouses, 161 children (152 natural, 5 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 49 (24 male householders (21 living alone)), 16 female householders (16 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 64 2-persons, 27 3-persons, 18 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 37 1-person, 1 2-persons, 2 5-persons,
105 married couples with children.
9 single-parent households (2 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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: 2
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |