Ledyard township, Kossuth County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Ledyard township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
71% of Ledyard township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 18% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 367
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 158
- South: 10
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 265
- One, attached: 4
- 3 or 4: 11
- 5 to 9: 10
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,300
Housing units in Ledyard township with a mortgage: 54 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 120
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Construction (15%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (10%)
- Wood products (9%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (19%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (17%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ledyard township:
- German (62.6%)
- Norwegian (11.7%)
- Irish (4.7%)
- Swedish (4.3%)
- English (2.7%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
- United States or American (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 182 (66%)
- Carpooled: 42 (15%)
- Walked: 14 (5%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 35 (13%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Other fuel (2%)
96.0% of residents of Ledyard township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 568- In family households: 467 (134 male householders, 24 female householders)
147 spouses, 155 children (135 natural, 8 adopted, 12 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 101 (51 male householders (48 living alone)), 48 female householders (48 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 80 2-persons, 28 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 6 5-persons, 7 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 96 1-person, 3 2-persons,
123 married couples with children.
18 single-parent households (3 men, 15 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |