Maine township, Linn County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Maine township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Maine township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1417
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 136
- South: 48
- West: 38
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $66,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 601
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 28
- 3 or 4: 51
- 10 to 19: 16
- Mobile homes: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $72,500
Housing units in Maine township with a mortgage: 240 (30 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 161
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (38%)
- Construction (8%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (3%)
- U. S. Postal service (3%)
- Food (2%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Food and beverage stores (11%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (19%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Maine township:
- German (38.8%)
- Irish (12.8%)
- English (11.0%)
- United States or American (11.0%)
- Danish (3.7%)
- Czech (3.6%)
- Norwegian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 634 (77%)
- Carpooled: 115 (14%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 53 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (55%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (1%)
98.4% of residents of Maine township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,657- In family households: 1,395 (407 male householders, 77 female householders)
411 spouses, 456 children (393 natural, 18 adopted, 45 stepchildren), 21 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 8 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 262 (79 male householders (61 living alone)), 147 female householders (135 living alone)), 36 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 250 2-persons, 88 3-persons, 97 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 196 1-person, 16 2-persons, 11 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
310 married couples with children.
78 single-parent households (26 men, 52 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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: 7
| Here: | 12.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |