Osage township, Mitchell County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Osage township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Osage township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3177
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 458
- South: 55
- West: 102
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
110 people in nursing homes
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,406
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 110
- 3 or 4: 68
- 5 to 9: 63
- 10 to 19: 20
- 20 to 49: 20
- 50 or more: 7
- Mobile homes: 41
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,300
Housing units in Osage township with a mortgage: 513 (75 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 628
- Truck transportation (14%)
- Food (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Construction (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Educational services (26%)
- Public administration (16%)
- Food (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (18%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (15%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Osage township:
- German (44.8%)
- Norwegian (15.7%)
- English (8.9%)
- Irish (7.3%)
- United States or American (4.8%)
- Czech (3.8%)
- Danish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (63%)
- Other Western Europe (22%)
- Russia (16%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,376 (78%)
- Carpooled: 202 (11%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 86 (5%)
- Worked at home: 103 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (84%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (7%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Wood (1%)
110 people in nursing homes
14 people in homes for the mentally retarded
98.0% of residents of Osage township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (76% speak English very well, 24% don't speak English at all).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,732- In family households: 3,082 (849 male householders, 209 female householders)
877 spouses, 1,079 children (975 natural, 30 adopted, 74 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 0 other relatives, 41 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 650 (182 male householders (148 living alone)), 417 female householders (397 living alone)), 51 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 126 (107 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 565 2-persons, 199 3-persons, 174 4-persons, 90 5-persons, 26 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 545 1-person, 48 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
657 married couples with children.
200 single-parent households (45 men, 155 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 47
| Here: | 10.3% |
| 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: | 7.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |