Orono township, Muscatine County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 13 (22% naturalized citizens)
| Orono township: | 13.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Orono township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 54% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4139
- Northeast: 330
- Midwest: 353
- South: 1103
- West: 72
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $73,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 12.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,031
- One, attached: 58
- Two: 120
- 3 or 4: 92
- 5 to 9: 76
- 10 to 19: 31
- 20 to 49: 15
- Mobile homes: 592
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,300
Housing units in Orono township with a mortgage: 566 (30 second mortgage, 58 home equity loan, 8 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 703
- Construction (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Health care (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Orono township:
- United States or American (25.2%)
- English (14.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (12.0%)
- German (11.9%)
- Irish (11.3%)
- Scottish (3.1%)
- Italian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (19%)
- Other Eastern Europe (12%)
- France (10%)
- Canada (10%)
- Honduras (9%)
- Peru (8%)
- Indonesia (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,395 (82%)
- Carpooled: 318 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 17 (1%)
- Taxi: 10 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 88 (3%)
- Other means: 22 (1%)
- Worked at home: 61 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (28%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (18%)
- Wood (4%)
96.3% of residents of Orono township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 1% speak English well, 39% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (53% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (63% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,907- In family households: 4,705 (1,241 male householders, 434 female householders)
1,321 spouses, 1,446 children (1,371 natural, 28 adopted, 47 stepchildren), 80 grandchildren, 51 brothers or sisters, 43 parents, 42 other relatives, 47 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,202 (400 male householders (322 living alone)), 607 female householders (523 living alone)), 195 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 192 (140 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 868 2-persons, 391 3-persons, 267 4-persons, 121 5-persons, 22 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 845 1-person, 137 2-persons, 24 3-persons, 1 4-persons,
117 married couples with children.
37 single-parent households (13 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 2.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 1.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 13
| Here: | 3.5% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |