Platte township, Taylor County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (26% naturalized citizens)
| Platte township: | 8.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Platte township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 46% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1115
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 219
- South: 93
- West: 49
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
54 people in other nonhousehold living situations
44 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 563
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 23
- 5 to 9: 25
- 20 to 49: 23
- Mobile homes: 37
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,800
Housing units in Platte township with a mortgage: 151 (13 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 209
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Food (13%)
- Construction (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Food (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Platte township:
- German (25.3%)
- English (11.2%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- United States or American (8.3%)
- Swedish (4.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Scottish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (90%)
- Korea (3%)
- Chile (2%)
- Thailand (2%)
- Brazil (2%)
- Canada (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 499 (71%)
- Carpooled: 123 (17%)
- Bicycle: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 35 (5%)
- Other means: 8 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (58%)
- Electricity (24%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
54 people in other nonhousehold living situations
44 people in nursing homes
87.2% of residents of Platte township speak English at home.
12.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 13% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,515- In family households: 1,242 (348 male householders, 43 female householders)
341 spouses, 396 children (365 natural, 11 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 32 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 273 (109 male householders (85 living alone)), 124 female householders (114 living alone)), 40 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 97 (41 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 197 2-persons, 65 3-persons, 59 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 199 1-person, 27 2-persons, 7 3-persons,
266 married couples with children.
54 single-parent households (22 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 3.4% |
| 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: 1
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |