Red Oak township, Cedar County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Red Oak township: | 3.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
66% of Red Oak township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 31% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 89% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 304
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 92
- South: 32
- West: 46
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 185
- Mobile homes: 45
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,900
Housing units in Red Oak township with a mortgage: 37 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 32
- Construction (30%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Health care (8%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (7%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Truck transportation (23%)
- Health care (20%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Leather and allied products (7%)
- Other direct selling establishments (7%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (13%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (10%)
- Carpenters (10%)
- Secondary school teachers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (17%)
- Customer service representatives (12%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (11%)
- Art and design workers (10%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Red Oak township:
- United States or American (24.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (18.8%)
- English (16.3%)
- Irish (8.4%)
- German (6.3%)
- Polish (4.1%)
- Dutch (3.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 207 (76%)
- Carpooled: 60 (22%)
- Worked at home: 6 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (53%)
- Wood (26%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Utility gas (3%)
93.5% of residents of Red Oak township speak English at home.
3.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English well).
3.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 486- In family households: 419 (138 male householders, 17 female householders)
131 spouses, 126 children (107 natural, 0 adopted, 19 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 67 (36 male householders (29 living alone)), 15 female householders (8 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 72 2-persons, 44 3-persons, 33 4-persons, 6 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 37 1-person, 14 2-persons,
46 married couples with children.
0 single-parent households (0 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 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% |