Saratoga township, Howard County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Saratoga township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
66% of Saratoga township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 29% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 200
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 52
- South: 0
- West: 14
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.9% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 107
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Saratoga township with a mortgage: 12 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 28
- Construction (15%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Health care (11%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Saratoga township:
- German (45.3%)
- Norwegian (23.7%)
- Czech (6.0%)
- United States or American (5.6%)
- English (5.2%)
- Irish (5.2%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 111 (76%)
- Carpooled: 8 (5%)
- Walked: 16 (11%)
- Worked at home: 12 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (72%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Wood (9%)
- Electricity (5%)
All residents speak only English at home
Household type by relationship:
Households: 270- In family households: 232 (61 male householders, 13 female householders)
65 spouses, 84 children (81 natural, 0 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 4 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 38 (26 male householders (19 living alone)), 3 female householders (3 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 26 2-persons, 31 3-persons, 11 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 22 1-person, 7 2-persons,
58 married couples with children.
2 single-parent households (0 men, 2 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 23.1% |
| 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: 8
| Here: | 57.1% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |