Saylor township, Polk County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Saylor township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
59% of Saylor township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 396
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 51
- South: 77
- West: 23
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 167
- Mobile homes: 55
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,300
Housing units in Saylor township with a mortgage: 32 (4 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 23
- Construction (16%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Saylor township:
- United States or American (32.8%)
- Irish (15.1%)
- German (11.9%)
- English (9.6%)
- French (except Basque) (7.5%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 136 (66%)
- Carpooled: 47 (23%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (2%)
- Worked at home: 17 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Wood (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (32%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Electricity (5%)
- No fuel used (3%)
98.1% of residents of Saylor township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 558- In family households: 521 (119 male householders, 41 female householders)
126 spouses, 184 children (161 natural, 0 adopted, 23 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 12 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 37 (3 male householders (3 living alone)), 34 female householders (34 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 59 2-persons, 33 3-persons, 29 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 37 1-person,
892 married couples with children.
322 single-parent households (81 men, 241 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% |