Rockford township, Floyd County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Rockford township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Rockford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1148
- Northeast: 16
- Midwest: 93
- South: 41
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 449
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 24
- 5 to 9: 12
- 10 to 19: 4
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 44
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,400
Housing units in Rockford township with a mortgage: 140 (12 second mortgage, 14 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 139
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Construction (12%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Warehousing and storage (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Health care (27%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rockford township:
- German (57.5%)
- Irish (12.2%)
- Norwegian (5.5%)
- United States or American (3.2%)
- English (3.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.6%)
- Swedish (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (75%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 468 (76%)
- Carpooled: 80 (13%)
- Bicycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 22 (4%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 43 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (23%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
97.3% of residents of Rockford township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,325- In family households: 1,129 (300 male householders, 55 female householders)
299 spouses, 446 children (420 natural, 9 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 196 (73 male householders (63 living alone)), 97 female householders (91 living alone)), 26 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 138 2-persons, 76 3-persons, 81 4-persons, 46 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 154 1-person, 9 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 2 5-persons,
289 married couples with children.
79 single-parent households (21 men, 58 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 2.7% |
| 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: 3
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |