Linn township, Warren County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Linn township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Linn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 80% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4988
- Northeast: 82
- Midwest: 650
- South: 125
- West: 133
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $92,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
132 people in nursing homes
54 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,856
- One, attached: 63
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 69
- 10 to 19: 50
- Mobile homes: 22
Median worth of mobile homes: $61,900
Housing units in Linn township with a mortgage: 1,291 (197 second mortgage, 180 home equity loan, 15 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 295
- Plastics and rubber products (11%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Wood products (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (18%)
- Health care (15%)
- Food (9%)
- Leather and allied products (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (20%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (16%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (7%)
- Life, physical, and social science technicians (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (18%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (12%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (9%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Linn township:
- German (31.7%)
- English (11.3%)
- United States or American (9.1%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- Norwegian (5.9%)
- Dutch (3.9%)
- Swedish (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (25%)
- Laos (15%)
- Korea (14%)
- Mexico (11%)
- United Kingdom (8%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Iraq (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,851 (82%)
- Carpooled: 389 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 52 (1%)
- Other means: 9 (0%)
- Worked at home: 190 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
132 people in nursing homes
54 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
96.5% of residents of Linn township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 41% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 26% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,892- In family households: 5,497 (1,424 male householders, 299 female householders)
1,453 spouses, 2,111 children (1,917 natural, 34 adopted, 160 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 20 brothers or sisters, 27 parents, 36 other relatives, 82 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 395 (133 male householders (105 living alone)), 200 female householders (174 living alone)), 62 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 185 (125 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 664 2-persons, 393 3-persons, 439 4-persons, 161 5-persons, 46 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 279 1-person, 49 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
1,399 married couples with children.
284 single-parent households (60 men, 224 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 29
| Here: | 3.7% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 10
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 139
| Here: | 48.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |