Lafayette township, Story County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Lafayette township: | 2.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
66% of Lafayette township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% 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: 1160
- Northeast: 178
- Midwest: 17
- South: 183
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
221 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 497
- 3 or 4: 8
- 5 to 9: 7
- Mobile homes: 273
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,300
Housing units in Lafayette township with a mortgage: 132 (0 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 113
- Construction (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Food (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lafayette township:
- United States or American (11.3%)
- German (7.9%)
- English (3.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.1%)
- Swedish (0.7%)
- Irish (0.5%)
- African (0.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (91%)
- Sweden (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 409 (71%)
- Carpooled: 144 (25%)
- Worked at home: 24 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (55%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (21%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Wood (9%)
221 people in nursing homes
5 people in homes for the mentally retarded
88.3% of residents of Lafayette township speak English at home.
11.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,627- In family households: 1,482 (248 male householders, 193 female householders)
277 spouses, 464 children (437 natural, 0 adopted, 27 stepchildren), 123 grandchildren, 63 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 85 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 145 (74 male householders (74 living alone)), 71 female householders (71 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 147 2-persons, 120 3-persons, 110 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 145 1-person,
699 married couples with children.
131 single-parent households (33 men, 98 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 10.2% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 25.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |