Iowa township, Iowa County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 19 (13% naturalized citizens)
| Iowa township: | 18.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
69% of Iowa township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9181
- Northeast: 510
- Midwest: 337
- South: 1278
- West: 128
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $104,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,601
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 49
- 5 to 9: 25
- 10 to 19: 38
- Mobile homes: 930
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,800
Housing units in Iowa township with a mortgage: 2,088 (234 second mortgage, 518 home equity loan, 35 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 920
- Construction (15%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (3%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Iowa township:
- United States or American (30.4%)
- German (22.1%)
- English (11.4%)
- Irish (9.1%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.8%)
- Italian (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (20%)
- Guatemala (18%)
- Honduras (18%)
- Germany (14%)
- Canada (13%)
- Japan (6%)
- Thailand (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 5,328 (88%)
- Carpooled: 517 (9%)
- Walked: 73 (1%)
- Worked at home: 114 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (62%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Wood (2%)
97.1% of residents of Iowa township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 30% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (32% speak English very well, 68% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,562- In family households: 10,399 (2,843 male householders, 620 female householders)
2,962 spouses, 3,498 children (3,207 natural, 97 adopted, 194 stepchildren), 179 grandchildren, 70 brothers or sisters, 47 parents, 64 other relatives, 116 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,163 (448 male householders (375 living alone)), 547 female householders (474 living alone)), 168 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 40 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,519 2-persons, 935 3-persons, 722 4-persons, 230 5-persons, 40 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 849 1-person, 123 2-persons, 23 3-persons,
138 married couples with children.
25 single-parent households (5 men, 20 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 53
| Here: | 4.1% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 36
| Here: | 5.9% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 84
| Here: | 19.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |