Penn township, Guthrie County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Penn township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
59% of Penn township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 9% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 411
- Northeast: 11
- Midwest: 13
- South: 14
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 235
- Mobile homes: 41
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,300
Housing units in Penn township with a mortgage: 87 (17 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 47
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- U. S. Postal service (6%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Social assistance (14%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Health care (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (20%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (14%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (11%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Carpenters (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (8%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Penn township:
- German (45.1%)
- English (24.9%)
- United States or American (11.8%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- Polish (2.7%)
- Dutch (2.0%)
- Swiss (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 223 (82%)
- Carpooled: 33 (12%)
- Worked at home: 15 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (85%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Other fuel (3%)
- Wood (2%)
98.7% of residents of Penn township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 464- In family households: 372 (130 male householders, 9 female householders)
128 spouses, 100 children (68 natural, 18 adopted, 14 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 92 (67 male householders (63 living alone)), 15 female householders (10 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 93 2-persons, 23 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 73 1-person, 9 2-persons,
73 married couples with children.
15 single-parent households (5 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 26.9% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 10.8% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 100.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |