Marshall township, Pocahontas County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Marshall township: | 2.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
72% of Marshall 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, 63% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1285
- Northeast: 46
- Midwest: 16
- South: 187
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $38,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 517
- One, attached: 32
- Two: 27
- 3 or 4: 3
- 5 to 9: 1
- 20 to 49: 6
- Mobile homes: 150
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,200
Housing units in Marshall township with a mortgage: 199 (10 second mortgage, 37 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 141
- Wood products (20%)
- Public administration (16%)
- Food (12%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Food (29%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (10%)
- Gasoline stations (8%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (27%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Mathematical science occupations (10%)
- Fire fighting and prevention workers including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (29%)
- Food processing workers (17%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (10%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Other transportation workers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Marshall township:
- United States or American (12.7%)
- French (except Basque) (3.5%)
- English (3.0%)
- Irish (1.7%)
- German (1.2%)
- Polish (0.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (0.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (75%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 405 (75%)
- Carpooled: 101 (19%)
- Taxi: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 3 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 17 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (51%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Wood (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
98.6% of residents of Marshall township speak English at home.
0.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (55% speak English very well, 45% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,549- In family households: 1,325 (260 male householders, 157 female householders)
268 spouses, 508 children (482 natural, 8 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 63 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 26 other relatives, 20 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 224 (88 male householders (78 living alone)), 119 female householders (114 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 183 2-persons, 103 3-persons, 81 4-persons, 29 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 192 1-person, 13 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
29 married couples with children.
1 single-parent households (0 men, 1 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 21
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 7.8% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 12.9% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |