Poweshiek township, Jasper County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Poweshiek township: | 1.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
69% of Poweshiek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 96% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 818
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 16
- South: 67
- West: 28
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 254
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 7
- Mobile homes: 124
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,700
Housing units in Poweshiek township with a mortgage: 68 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 48
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Therapists (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Poweshiek township:
- United States or American (19.2%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- German (6.4%)
- English (5.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.6%)
- French Canadian (2.5%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (52%)
- Germany (48%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 360 (78%)
- Carpooled: 90 (20%)
- Other means: 11 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (55%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Wood (11%)
- Utility gas (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
93.9% of residents of Poweshiek township speak English at home.
6.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 956- In family households: 870 (196 male householders, 73 female householders)
205 spouses, 276 children (260 natural, 11 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 61 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 32 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 86 (44 male householders (40 living alone)), 37 female householders (37 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 87 2-persons, 98 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 14 5-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 77 1-person, 4 2-persons,
224 married couples with children.
52 single-parent households (31 men, 21 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): 5
| Here: | 6.8% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |