Lake township, Pocahontas County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Lake township: | 2.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
59% of Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 30% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 984
- Northeast: 35
- Midwest: 866
- South: 212
- West: 134
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $30,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 860
- One, attached: 13
- Two: 20
- 3 or 4: 8
- 10 to 19: 9
- 20 to 49: 24
- 50 or more: 12
- Mobile homes: 202
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,700
Housing units in Lake township with a mortgage: 197 (19 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 233
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Rail transportation (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lake township:
- United States or American (45.0%)
- Irish (13.7%)
- English (12.1%)
- German (8.4%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Nicaragua (78%)
- Canada (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 634 (80%)
- Carpooled: 101 (13%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 48 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (49%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Wood (22%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
99.1% of residents of Lake township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 23% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,245- In family households: 1,921 (588 male householders, 100 female householders)
579 spouses, 566 children (470 natural, 11 adopted, 85 stepchildren), 35 grandchildren, 18 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 5 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 324 (101 male householders (71 living alone)), 179 female householders (173 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 369 2-persons, 142 3-persons, 106 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 244 1-person, 27 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
98 married couples with children.
9 single-parent households (5 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 2.9% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 18
| Here: | 17.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |