Otter Creek township, Jackson County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Otter Creek township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
66% of Otter Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 28% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 550
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 30
- South: 0
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $78,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 260
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 106
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,100
Housing units in Otter Creek township with a mortgage: 48 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 33
- Construction (20%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Paper (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (17%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (9%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Otter Creek township:
- German (55.3%)
- Irish (22.3%)
- United States or American (9.0%)
- English (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (2.1%)
- Welsh (1.6%)
- Luxemburger (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 287 (82%)
- Carpooled: 40 (11%)
- Walked: 9 (3%)
- Worked at home: 12 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (67%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Wood (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Utility gas (8%)
95.6% of residents of Otter Creek township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 54% speak English well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 593- In family households: 520 (149 male householders, 22 female householders)
161 spouses, 184 children (180 natural, 2 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 73 (42 male householders (42 living alone)), 26 female householders (23 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 81 2-persons, 36 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 65 1-person, 3 2-persons,
152 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (11 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 3.0% |
| 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% |