Lovell township, Jones County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (58% naturalized citizens)
| Lovell township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
57% of Lovell township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4217
- Northeast: 45
- Midwest: 318
- South: 111
- West: 101
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $57,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
111 people in nursing homes
24 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,558
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 81
- 3 or 4: 91
- 5 to 9: 38
- 10 to 19: 105
- 20 to 49: 51
- Mobile homes: 121
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,600
Housing units in Lovell township with a mortgage: 617 (30 second mortgage, 52 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 484
- Construction (10%)
- Plastics and rubber products (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Paper (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lovell township:
- German (59.7%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- United States or American (8.0%)
- English (3.9%)
- Norwegian (2.6%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- Czech (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (58%)
- Germany (42%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,902 (83%)
- Carpooled: 207 (9%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 67 (3%)
- Other means: 14 (1%)
- Worked at home: 93 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (64%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
111 people in nursing homes
24 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
96.9% of residents of Lovell township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 39% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,675- In family households: 3,907 (1,133 male householders, 183 female householders)
1,097 spouses, 1,355 children (1,308 natural, 7 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 12 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 29 other relatives, 82 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 768 (247 male householders (180 living alone)), 385 female householders (358 living alone)), 136 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 135 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 664 2-persons, 250 3-persons, 242 4-persons, 77 5-persons, 72 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 538 1-person, 76 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 8 5-persons,
773 married couples with children.
274 single-parent households (55 men, 219 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 82
| Here: | 12.4% |
| 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: 54
| Here: | 28.6% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |