Scott township, Fayette County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 386 (36% naturalized citizens)
| Scott township: | 385.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Scott township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% 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: 16325
- Northeast: 444
- Midwest: 1702
- South: 3866
- West: 2115
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $64,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 7,621
- One, attached: 161
- Two: 606
- 3 or 4: 238
- 5 to 9: 260
- 10 to 19: 155
- 20 to 49: 104
- 50 or more: 53
- Mobile homes: 978
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 14
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,000
Housing units in Scott township with a mortgage: 3,932 (288 second mortgage, 122 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,740
- Construction (11%)
- Food (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Food (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Scott township:
- United States or American (26.3%)
- Irish (12.3%)
- German (11.9%)
- English (8.2%)
- Italian (2.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- El Salvador (27%)
- Mexico (20%)
- Laos (14%)
- Vietnam (7%)
- Korea (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Guatemala (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 9,319 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,432 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 41 (0%)
- Taxi: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 30 (0%)
- Bicycle: 18 (0%)
- Walked: 76 (1%)
- Other means: 36 (0%)
- Worked at home: 230 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Electricity (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
93.5% of residents of Scott township speak English at home.
4.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 25% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (39% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 25,244- In family households: 22,556 (5,562 male householders, 1,660 female householders)
5,585 spouses, 8,125 children (7,108 natural, 188 adopted, 829 stepchildren), 587 grandchildren, 204 brothers or sisters, 119 parents, 293 other relatives, 421 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,688 (909 male householders (732 living alone)), 1,391 female householders (1,245 living alone)), 388 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 403 (365 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,899 2-persons, 1,937 3-persons, 1,398 4-persons, 678 5-persons, 252 6-persons, 58 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,977 1-person, 270 2-persons, 53 3-persons,
77 married couples with children.
7 single-parent households (2 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 103
| Here: | 3.1% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 51
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 78
| Here: | 10.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |