Lester township, Black Hawk County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Lester township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Lester township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1280
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 101
- South: 28
- West: 35
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 413
- 3 or 4: 13
- 5 to 9: 3
- 10 to 19: 51
- Mobile homes: 62
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,100
Housing units in Lester township with a mortgage: 201 (12 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 98
- Construction (20%)
- Machinery (18%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lester township:
- German (52.6%)
- United States or American (12.4%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- English (6.4%)
- Swedish (3.5%)
- Norwegian (3.0%)
- Danish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (67%)
- Korea (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 611 (82%)
- Carpooled: 91 (12%)
- Bicycle: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 26 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (45%)
- Utility gas (37%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (2%)
97.0% of residents of Lester township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 35% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,471- In family households: 1,358 (347 male householders, 50 female householders)
347 spouses, 573 children (524 natural, 16 adopted, 33 stepchildren), 10 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 5 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 113 (65 male householders (56 living alone)), 31 female householders (27 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 145 2-persons, 79 3-persons, 85 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 83 1-person, 13 2-persons,
362 married couples with children.
77 single-parent households (30 men, 47 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 6.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 5.6% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |