Putnam township, Linn County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (54% naturalized citizens)
| Putnam township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
55% of Putnam township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% 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: 1488
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 140
- South: 58
- West: 37
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 548
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 15
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 66
- 10 to 19: 3
- 20 to 49: 2
- 50 or more: 3
- Mobile homes: 20
Median worth of mobile homes: $183,800
Housing units in Putnam township with a mortgage: 296 (32 second mortgage, 38 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 85
- Construction (44%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (3%)
- Petroleum and petroleum products merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (3%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (13%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (10%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Private households (8%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (12%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (7%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Therapists (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Putnam township:
- German (36.5%)
- Czech (16.5%)
- United States or American (11.3%)
- Irish (8.4%)
- English (4.9%)
- Norwegian (3.2%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (33%)
- Germany (17%)
- India (17%)
- Philippines (13%)
- Ecuador (13%)
- Colombia (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 866 (84%)
- Carpooled: 86 (8%)
- Bicycle: 7 (1%)
- Walked: 22 (2%)
- Worked at home: 50 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (21%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
95.1% of residents of Putnam township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,764- In family households: 1,532 (401 male householders, 97 female householders)
423 spouses, 568 children (532 natural, 11 adopted, 25 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 9 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 232 (99 male householders (71 living alone)), 65 female householders (54 living alone)), 68 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 197 2-persons, 112 3-persons, 124 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 125 1-person, 27 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 7 5-persons,
396 married couples with children.
82 single-parent households (20 men, 62 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 2.4% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 1.8% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 11
| Here: | 14.9% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |