Lafayette township, Keokuk County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Lafayette township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
68% of Lafayette township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1308
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 125
- South: 20
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $60,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
43 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 566
- One, attached: 12
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 20
- 5 to 9: 1
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 23
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,000
Housing units in Lafayette township with a mortgage: 211 (5 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 197
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Warehousing and storage (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (28%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lafayette township:
- German (48.5%)
- United States or American (20.9%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- English (5.0%)
- Norwegian (2.8%)
- Swedish (2.0%)
- Polish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Trinidad and Tobago (43%)
- United Kingdom (29%)
- Canada (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 539 (79%)
- Carpooled: 73 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 35 (5%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 32 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
43 people in nursing homes
98.8% of residents of Lafayette township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,452- In family households: 1,243 (346 male householders, 49 female householders)
340 spouses, 456 children (418 natural, 5 adopted, 33 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 2 other relatives, 27 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 209 (75 male householders (64 living alone)), 104 female householders (98 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 43 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 166 2-persons, 97 3-persons, 68 4-persons, 47 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 162 1-person, 12 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
287 married couples with children.
55 single-parent households (18 men, 37 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): 3
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |