Shelby township, Shelby County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Shelby township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Shelby township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 702
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 194
- South: 31
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 380
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 20
- Mobile homes: 19
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,200
Housing units in Shelby township with a mortgage: 123 (8 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 123
- Paper (16%)
- Construction (14%)
- Truck transportation (11%)
- Chemicals (9%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (15%)
- Food and beverage stores (12%)
- Sporting goods, camera, and hobby and toy stores (8%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (17%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Cashiers (21%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Shelby township:
- German (43.2%)
- Danish (12.0%)
- United States or American (10.7%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- English (6.2%)
- Norwegian (3.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (33%)
- Thailand (33%)
- Canada (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 415 (82%)
- Carpooled: 41 (8%)
- Walked: 13 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 33 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
96.8% of residents of Shelby township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 37% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 985- In family households: 832 (222 male householders, 52 female householders)
234 spouses, 285 children (257 natural, 8 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 10 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 153 (50 male householders (36 living alone)), 75 female householders (70 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 139 2-persons, 53 3-persons, 40 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 106 1-person, 12 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
201 married couples with children.
47 single-parent households (9 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 5.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
| Here: | 1.5% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 14.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |