Lick Creek township, Van Buren County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 19 (9% naturalized citizens)
| Lick Creek township: | 19.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Lick Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 52% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 903
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 53
- South: 252
- West: 57
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 410
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 4
- 5 to 9: 20
- 10 to 19: 14
- Mobile homes: 101
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,900
Housing units in Lick Creek township with a mortgage: 168 (4 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 117
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Machinery (12%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Personal and laundry services (9%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (16%)
- Farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (6%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (19%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Customer service representatives (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lick Creek township:
- United States or American (10.9%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- English (5.4%)
- German (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (87%)
- El Salvador (9%)
- Honduras (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 476 (79%)
- Carpooled: 100 (17%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (2%)
- Worked at home: 6 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
91.2% of residents of Lick Creek township speak English at home.
8.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (14% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 32% speak English not well, 44% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,363- In family households: 1,201 (273 male householders, 125 female householders)
248 spouses, 439 children (368 natural, 13 adopted, 58 stepchildren), 50 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 25 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 162 (36 male householders (29 living alone)), 71 female householders (64 living alone)), 55 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 159 2-persons, 102 3-persons, 95 4-persons, 29 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 93 1-person, 8 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
87 married couples with children.
19 single-parent households (5 men, 14 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 16.1% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |