Orange township, Guthrie County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Orange township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Orange township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% 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: 382
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 32
- South: 267
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $132,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 279
- Mobile homes: 123
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,100
Housing units in Orange township with a mortgage: 72 (2 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 93
- Construction (39%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (13%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Beverage and tobacco products (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (41%)
- Social assistance (20%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (10%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Other construction workers and helpers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (17%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (16%)
- Child care workers (14%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Orange township:
- English (34.2%)
- United States or American (16.3%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (8.8%)
- Scottish (7.8%)
- German (5.3%)
- French Canadian (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 227 (70%)
- Carpooled: 84 (26%)
- Worked at home: 11 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (2%)
97.0% of residents of Orange township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 42% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 722- In family households: 635 (188 male householders, 44 female householders)
181 spouses, 168 children (168 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 14 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 87 (57 male householders (57 living alone)), 30 female householders (30 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 122 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 50 4-persons, 10 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 87 1-person,
40 married couples with children.
5 single-parent households (3 men, 2 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |