Liston township, Woodbury County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 53 (13% naturalized citizens)
| Liston township: | 53.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Liston 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, 60% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4517
- Northeast: 69
- Midwest: 346
- South: 880
- West: 260
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,016
- One, attached: 39
- Two: 194
- 3 or 4: 125
- 5 to 9: 24
- 10 to 19: 65
- 50 or more: 19
- Mobile homes: 292
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,500
Housing units in Liston township with a mortgage: 698 (35 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 450
- Construction (15%)
- Food (14%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (12%)
- Machinery (11%)
- Food (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Liston township:
- United States or American (21.3%)
- German (6.9%)
- Irish (4.8%)
- English (4.6%)
- African (3.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
- Italian (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (74%)
- Honduras (14%)
- Vietnam (10%)
- Korea (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,120 (76%)
- Carpooled: 514 (18%)
- Walked: 99 (4%)
- Other means: 30 (1%)
- Worked at home: 41 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (67%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (2%)
90.9% of residents of Liston township speak English at home.
6.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (27% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 31% speak English not well, 23% don't speak English at all).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (66% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (39% speak English very well, 61% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,111- In family households: 5,262 (1,275 male householders, 403 female householders)
1,265 spouses, 1,881 children (1,637 natural, 39 adopted, 205 stepchildren), 156 grandchildren, 39 brothers or sisters, 16 parents, 110 other relatives, 117 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 849 (292 male householders (251 living alone)), 474 female householders (441 living alone)), 83 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 321 (286 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 714 2-persons, 373 3-persons, 355 4-persons, 169 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 44 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 692 1-person, 60 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
138 married couples with children.
20 single-parent households (4 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 41
| Here: | 5.4% |
| 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: 8
| Here: | 6.6% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |