Le Claire township, Scott County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (86% naturalized citizens)
| Le Claire township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
62% of Le Claire township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2755
- Northeast: 79
- Midwest: 1110
- South: 112
- West: 60
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $173,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,527
- One, attached: 54
- Two: 26
- 3 or 4: 76
- 5 to 9: 42
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,500
Housing units in Le Claire township with a mortgage: 859 (88 second mortgage, 106 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 403
- Chemicals (21%)
- Construction (19%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Water transportation (7%)
- Warehousing and storage (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Health care (15%)
- Social assistance (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (14%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (13%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (12%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Le Claire township:
- German (38.4%)
- Irish (13.9%)
- United States or American (10.8%)
- English (6.2%)
- Norwegian (4.6%)
- Swedish (4.2%)
- Italian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Colombia (31%)
- India (29%)
- Germany (23%)
- Austria (9%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,989 (85%)
- Carpooled: 166 (7%)
- Walked: 83 (4%)
- Other means: 11 (0%)
- Worked at home: 86 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (82%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (8%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
97.3% of residents of Le Claire township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (88% speak English very well, 12% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 34% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,192- In family households: 3,706 (1,025 male householders, 218 female householders)
1,120 spouses, 1,217 children (1,090 natural, 38 adopted, 89 stepchildren), 36 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 17 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 486 (225 male householders (184 living alone)), 168 female householders (146 living alone)), 93 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 583 2-persons, 307 3-persons, 221 4-persons, 77 5-persons, 33 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 330 1-person, 47 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
824 married couples with children.
198 single-parent households (70 men, 128 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 31
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 25
| Here: | 15.6% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |