Scott township, Poweshiek County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Scott township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
69% of Scott township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 27% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 56% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 738
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 36
- South: 106
- West: 48
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 316
- One, attached: 6
- Mobile homes: 116
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,100
Housing units in Scott township with a mortgage: 49 (2 second mortgage, 3 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 86
- Construction (20%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (12%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Warehousing and storage (6%)
- Health care (45%)
- Finance and insurance (17%)
- Food and beverage stores (12%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Top executives (8%)
- Electricians (7%)
- Printing workers (7%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (18%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (17%)
- Cashiers (12%)
- Other financial specialists (11%)
- Health technologists and technicians (9%)
- Top executives (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Scott township:
- United States or American (35.3%)
- German (6.5%)
- English (6.0%)
- Irish (5.0%)
- French Canadian (3.1%)
- Italian (3.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 287 (80%)
- Carpooled: 47 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 14 (4%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 7 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Electricity (30%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Wood (6%)
- No fuel used (2%)
96.7% of residents of Scott township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 954- In family households: 833 (199 male householders, 70 female householders)
181 spouses, 297 children (271 natural, 0 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 44 grandchildren, 12 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 16 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 121 (60 male householders (56 living alone)), 58 female householders (58 living alone)), 3 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 99 2-persons, 94 3-persons, 53 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 114 1-person, 4 2-persons,
71 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (5 men, 9 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: 2
| Here: | 3.2% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |