Pleasant Grove township, Marion County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (53% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant Grove township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
62% of Pleasant Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% 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: 2146
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 172
- South: 83
- West: 84
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $14,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
40 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 795
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 21
- 3 or 4: 24
- 5 to 9: 44
- 10 to 19: 22
- Mobile homes: 118
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Pleasant Grove township with a mortgage: 405 (61 second mortgage, 43 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 172
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Paper (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Finance and insurance (15%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other financial specialists (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant Grove township:
- German (23.4%)
- United States or American (15.5%)
- English (15.0%)
- Dutch (9.8%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- Swedish (3.2%)
- Norwegian (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (53%)
- Korea (47%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 976 (79%)
- Carpooled: 198 (16%)
- Walked: 27 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 30 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (30%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
40 people in nursing homes
98.0% of residents of Pleasant Grove township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (86% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,493- In family households: 2,184 (603 male householders, 97 female householders)
595 spouses, 822 children (746 natural, 5 adopted, 71 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 14 other relatives, 31 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 309 (123 male householders (103 living alone)), 151 female householders (135 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 40 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 295 2-persons, 149 3-persons, 138 4-persons, 82 5-persons, 23 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 238 1-person, 34 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
563 married couples with children.
132 single-parent households (36 men, 96 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 0.9% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.7% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 24
| Here: | 41.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |