Mendon township, Clayton County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (9% naturalized citizens)
| Mendon township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Mendon township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 24% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2977
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 152
- South: 1006
- West: 72
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 7.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
47 people in nursing homes
16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,217
- One, attached: 21
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 24
- 5 to 9: 39
- 10 to 19: 46
- 20 to 49: 43
- 50 or more: 8
- Mobile homes: 367
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,200
Housing units in Mendon township with a mortgage: 381 (25 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 392
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (30%)
- Apparel (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Construction (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Apparel (20%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mendon township:
- United States or American (11.0%)
- English (2.8%)
- Irish (2.6%)
- Italian (1.5%)
- African (1.5%)
- German (1.2%)
- European (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 980 (69%)
- Carpooled: 306 (22%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (1%)
- Bicycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 74 (5%)
- Other means: 19 (1%)
- Worked at home: 16 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
47 people in nursing homes
16 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.9% of residents of Mendon township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 9% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (42% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 42% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (63% speak English very well, 38% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,296- In family households: 3,804 (672 male householders, 485 female householders)
720 spouses, 1,288 children (1,202 natural, 18 adopted, 68 stepchildren), 368 grandchildren, 47 brothers or sisters, 22 parents, 136 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 492 (195 male householders (180 living alone)), 246 female householders (223 living alone)), 51 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 448 2-persons, 326 3-persons, 191 4-persons, 100 5-persons, 43 6-persons, 49 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 403 1-person, 30 2-persons, 8 4-persons,
284 married couples with children.
106 single-parent households (36 men, 70 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 82
| Here: | 13.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
| Here: | 7.6% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |