Silver Creek township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 47 (15% naturalized citizens)
| Silver Creek township: | 47.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Silver Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4567
- Northeast: 244
- Midwest: 82
- South: 236
- West: 86
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $69,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,660
- One, attached: 65
- Two: 50
- 3 or 4: 128
- 5 to 9: 48
- 10 to 19: 21
- 20 to 49: 33
- 50 or more: 9
- Mobile homes: 401
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 27
Median worth of mobile homes: $38,500
Housing units in Silver Creek township with a mortgage: 506 (66 second mortgage, 54 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 517
- Construction (10%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Food (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Food (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Creek township:
- United States or American (18.1%)
- English (3.4%)
- Irish (2.4%)
- African (1.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.7%)
- German (1.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (78%)
- Honduras (7%)
- Guatemala (6%)
- Other Caribbean (3%)
- Italy (2%)
- Germany (1%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,662 (76%)
- Carpooled: 352 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 10 (0%)
- Bicycle: 12 (1%)
- Walked: 57 (3%)
- Other means: 11 (1%)
- Worked at home: 89 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (46%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (42%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (2%)
86.8% of residents of Silver Creek township speak English at home.
12.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (37% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 19% speak English not well, 21% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,559- In family households: 4,794 (975 male householders, 513 female householders)
1,002 spouses, 1,652 children (1,468 natural, 34 adopted, 150 stepchildren), 245 grandchildren, 102 brothers or sisters, 23 parents, 216 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 765 (219 male householders (169 living alone)), 446 female householders (428 living alone)), 100 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 118 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 639 2-persons, 358 3-persons, 269 4-persons, 123 5-persons, 61 6-persons, 38 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 597 1-person, 45 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 9 4-persons, 4 5-persons,
230 married couples with children.
32 single-parent households (4 men, 28 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 35
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 0.9% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |