Scranton township, Greene County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 11 (32% naturalized citizens)
| Scranton township: | 11.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Scranton 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, 80% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3262
- Northeast: 231
- Midwest: 98
- South: 244
- West: 66
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $54,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,073
- One, attached: 15
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 643
Median worth of mobile homes: $49,600
Housing units in Scranton township with a mortgage: 398 (24 second mortgage, 42 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 314
- Construction (24%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Food (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Health care (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Scranton township:
- United States or American (46.2%)
- English (5.0%)
- Irish (4.6%)
- German (4.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.4%)
- British (1.0%)
- European (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Honduras (63%)
- Mexico (17%)
- Guatemala (11%)
- Germany (6%)
- Panama (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,414 (79%)
- Carpooled: 290 (16%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 9 (1%)
- Other means: 26 (1%)
- Worked at home: 50 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (53%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (3%)
- No fuel used (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
95.1% of residents of Scranton township speak English at home.
4.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (34% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 33% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (33% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well, 33% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,948- In family households: 3,423 (868 male householders, 264 female householders)
889 spouses, 1,063 children (982 natural, 9 adopted, 72 stepchildren), 123 grandchildren, 48 brothers or sisters, 14 parents, 105 other relatives, 49 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 525 (199 male householders (146 living alone)), 240 female householders (227 living alone)), 86 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 41 (10 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 510 2-persons, 297 3-persons, 219 4-persons, 65 5-persons, 28 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 373 1-person, 52 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
157 married couples with children.
41 single-parent households (18 men, 23 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 30
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |