Spring Grove township, Linn County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (10% naturalized citizens)
| Spring Grove township: | 3.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
66% of Spring Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 51% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 606
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 11
- South: 122
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $25,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 203
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 125
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,400
Housing units in Spring Grove township with a mortgage: 37 (2 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 53
- Construction (26%)
- Paper (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Paper (13%)
- Health care (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (7%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring Grove township:
- United States or American (51.7%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- English (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.0%)
- German (1.8%)
- European (1.6%)
- Italian (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 250 (77%)
- Carpooled: 62 (19%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 7 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (71%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (9%)
95.3% of residents of Spring Grove township speak English at home.
4.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (24% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 38% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 793- In family households: 713 (194 male householders, 29 female householders)
179 spouses, 227 children (199 natural, 8 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 53 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 10 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 80 (30 male householders (28 living alone)), 46 female householders (46 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 95 2-persons, 53 3-persons, 47 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 74 1-person, 2 3-persons,
174 married couples with children.
39 single-parent households (15 men, 24 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |