Liberty township, Wright County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (37% naturalized citizens)
| Liberty township: | 3.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Liberty township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 19% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 88% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1021
- Northeast: 30
- Midwest: 156
- South: 284
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 444
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 211
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,400
Housing units in Liberty township with a mortgage: 96 (0 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 104
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Construction (10%)
- Food (10%)
- Farm product raw materials merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Warehousing and storage (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Food and beverage stores (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (17%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Liberty township:
- United States or American (34.6%)
- German (9.8%)
- Swiss (5.7%)
- Irish (4.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.4%)
- English (3.0%)
- Swedish (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (60%)
- Germany (27%)
- United Kingdom (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 538 (76%)
- Carpooled: 100 (14%)
- Walked: 10 (1%)
- Other means: 10 (1%)
- Worked at home: 48 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (42%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Wood (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
93.7% of residents of Liberty township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 47% speak English not well).
3.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English very well, 37% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,561- In family households: 1,408 (409 male householders, 68 female householders)
382 spouses, 472 children (417 natural, 6 adopted, 49 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 21 parents, 6 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 153 (50 male householders (50 living alone)), 94 female householders (84 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 224 2-persons, 117 3-persons, 75 4-persons, 46 5-persons, 15 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 134 1-person, 10 2-persons,
132 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (16 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 44
| Here: | 19.6% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
| Here: | 13.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |