Oxford township, Jones County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Oxford township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Oxford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% 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: 726
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 70
- South: 47
- West: 12
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 1.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 359
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 35
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Oxford township with a mortgage: 96 (3 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 106
- Construction (18%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (10%)
- Food (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Radio, TV, and computer stores (4%)
- Educational services (26%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Religious workers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Secondary school teachers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (20%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (10%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (10%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Oxford township:
- German (42.3%)
- Czech (16.7%)
- United States or American (9.1%)
- English (7.9%)
- Irish (7.4%)
- Polish (2.1%)
- Czechoslovakian (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 250 (63%)
- Carpooled: 51 (13%)
- Walked: 23 (6%)
- Other means: 7 (2%)
- Worked at home: 63 (16%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (74%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Wood (6%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Utility gas (1%)
96.6% of residents of Oxford township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 868- In family households: 712 (168 male householders, 46 female householders)
177 spouses, 263 children (246 natural, 6 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 36 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 156 (66 male householders (60 living alone)), 63 female householders (52 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 72 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 56 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 112 1-person, 11 2-persons, 6 4-persons,
164 married couples with children.
39 single-parent households (10 men, 29 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% |