Lincoln township, Pocahontas County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 156 (60% naturalized citizens)
| Lincoln township: | 156.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Lincoln 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, 36% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4977
- Northeast: 397
- Midwest: 253
- South: 626
- West: 79
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,206
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 55
- 3 or 4: 16
- Mobile homes: 477
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,100
Housing units in Lincoln township with a mortgage: 1,268 (159 second mortgage, 280 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 428
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (57%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (13%)
- Construction (10%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Educational services (26%)
- Food (14%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (14%)
- Public administration (14%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Health care (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (46%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (13%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (11%)
- Construction laborers (10%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (26%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (21%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (14%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (14%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Financial managers (5%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lincoln township:
- United States or American (18.6%)
- German (13.0%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- English (9.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.4%)
- European (4.1%)
- Italian (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (44%)
- Canada (13%)
- Guatemala (10%)
- Mexico (10%)
- El Salvador (10%)
- Germany (4%)
- Philippines (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,857 (86%)
- Carpooled: 302 (9%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 38 (1%)
- Other means: 41 (1%)
- Worked at home: 79 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (47%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Wood (5%)
94.0% of residents of Lincoln township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (62% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 23% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English not well).
2.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (51% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,646- In family households: 5,972 (1,562 male householders, 460 female householders)
1,575 spouses, 1,863 children (1,736 natural, 25 adopted, 102 stepchildren), 246 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 50 parents, 70 other relatives, 113 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 674 (313 male householders (256 living alone)), 270 female householders (249 living alone)), 91 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 27 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 943 2-persons, 483 3-persons, 423 4-persons, 124 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 34 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 505 1-person, 73 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
57 married couples with children.
1 single-parent households (1 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
| Here: | 4.1% |
| 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: 21
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |