Read township, Clayton County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 45 (9% naturalized citizens)
| Read township: | 45.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Read township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 9% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 475
- Northeast: 45
- Midwest: 630
- South: 316
- West: 167
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 736
- One, attached: 9
- Two: 8
- 3 or 4: 10
- Mobile homes: 74
Median worth of mobile homes: $48,000
Housing units in Read township with a mortgage: 250 (13 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 266
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (38%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Food (4%)
- Public administration (18%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores (7%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (30%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Media and communication equipment workers (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (13%)
- Health technologists and technicians (11%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (11%)
- Waiters and waitresses (9%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Read township:
- German (22.6%)
- United States or American (17.2%)
- Irish (10.9%)
- English (10.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.8%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- Polish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (79%)
- Honduras (10%)
- Germany (9%)
- Thailand (1%)
- Vietnam (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 461 (76%)
- Carpooled: 106 (18%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 11 (2%)
- Worked at home: 16 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (17%)
- Wood (10%)
46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
93.1% of residents of Read township speak English at home.
6.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (13% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 35% speak English not well, 47% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,778- In family households: 1,490 (453 male householders, 69 female householders)
449 spouses, 405 children (357 natural, 10 adopted, 38 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 22 other relatives, 61 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 288 (105 male householders (94 living alone)), 139 female householders (119 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 332 2-persons, 61 3-persons, 64 4-persons, 25 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 213 1-person, 21 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
59 married couples with children.
7 single-parent households (0 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |