Pleasant township, Union County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant township: | 5.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Pleasant township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 31% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 220
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 107
- South: 30
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 126
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 83
Median worth of mobile homes: $23,700
Housing units in Pleasant township with a mortgage: 25 (8 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 14
- Administrative and support and waste management services (20%)
- Electrical and electronic goods merchant wholesalers (14%)
- Truck transportation (14%)
- Metal and metal products (11%)
- Wood products (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Construction (5%)
- Wood products (24%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Personal and laundry services (8%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (23%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (18%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (15%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (37%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (8%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Woodworkers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant township:
- United States or American (48.2%)
- Irish (10.8%)
- English (7.2%)
- French (except Basque) (7.2%)
- German (7.2%)
- Scottish (4.3%)
- Italian (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (33%)
- Other Eastern Europe (33%)
- Honduras (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 132 (77%)
- Carpooled: 14 (8%)
- Worked at home: 26 (15%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (66%)
- Wood (17%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Utility gas (6%)
96.9% of residents of Pleasant township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 392- In family households: 333 (132 male householders, 18 female householders)
118 spouses, 57 children (52 natural, 0 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 59 (24 male householders (22 living alone)), 32 female householders (32 living alone)), 3 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 111 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 13 4-persons, 1 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 54 1-person, 2 2-persons,
21 married couples with children.
6 single-parent households (6 men, 0 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 undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |