St. Ansgar township, Mitchell County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (40% naturalized citizens)
| St. Ansgar township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of St. Ansgar township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% 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: 986
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 198
- South: 14
- West: 47
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
68 people in nursing homes
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 484
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 26
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in St. Ansgar township with a mortgage: 195 (17 second mortgage, 39 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 184
- Food (11%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Construction (8%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Food (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (4%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in St. Ansgar township:
- German (46.8%)
- Norwegian (20.6%)
- English (9.7%)
- Irish (4.3%)
- European (3.2%)
- United States or American (3.1%)
- Czech (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (40%)
- Canada (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 387 (71%)
- Carpooled: 62 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 63 (11%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 24 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (75%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
68 people in nursing homes
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.0% of residents of St. Ansgar township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,190- In family households: 1,003 (266 male householders, 58 female householders)
279 spouses, 378 children (355 natural, 12 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 1 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 187 (49 male householders (45 living alone)), 129 female householders (126 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 79 (25 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 163 2-persons, 78 3-persons, 29 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 171 1-person, 7 2-persons,
217 married couples with children.
56 single-parent households (25 men, 31 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 3.6% |
| 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: 10
| Here: | 50.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |