Prairie township, Keokuk County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Prairie township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 390
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 22
- South: 3
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 174
- 3 or 4: 3
- Mobile homes: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Prairie township with a mortgage: 52 (0 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 29
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Wood products (8%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Food (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (9%)
- Food (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Prairie township:
- German (38.3%)
- United States or American (31.4%)
- English (9.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (5.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.8%)
- Scottish (3.1%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (50%)
- Argentina (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 182 (76%)
- Carpooled: 26 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Bicycle: 4 (2%)
- Walked: 7 (3%)
- Other means: 4 (2%)
- Worked at home: 13 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (70%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Wood (5%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Electricity (4%)
99.0% of residents of Prairie township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 437- In family households: 360 (98 male householders, 15 female householders)
115 spouses, 119 children (108 natural, 10 adopted, 1 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 9 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 77 (45 male householders (33 living alone)), 16 female householders (16 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 52 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 19 4-persons, 7 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 49 1-person, 10 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
98 married couples with children.
3 single-parent households (1 men, 2 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): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |