St. Clair township, Benton County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 27 (47% naturalized citizens)
| St. Clair township: | 27.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
50% of St. Clair township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 38% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4705
- Northeast: 96
- Midwest: 677
- South: 805
- West: 318
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $59,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.6% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,123
- One, attached: 19
- Two: 142
- 3 or 4: 124
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 55
- 20 to 49: 45
- Mobile homes: 335
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,400
Housing units in St. Clair township with a mortgage: 865 (90 second mortgage, 34 home equity loan, 18 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 467
- Construction (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (10%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (8%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (8%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (20%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (11%)
- Construction laborers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (15%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (11%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (10%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Accountants and auditors (8%)
- Customer service representatives (7%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in St. Clair township:
- United States or American (27.3%)
- English (13.4%)
- Irish (12.4%)
- German (8.9%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Norwegian (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hong Kong (42%)
- Laos (16%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (12%)
- Philippines (9%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- Canada (6%)
- Romania (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,536 (80%)
- Carpooled: 458 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 12 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 60 (2%)
- Other means: 18 (1%)
- Worked at home: 62 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (54%)
- Electricity (37%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (4%)
96.6% of residents of St. Clair township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 26% speak English well).
1.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (42% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 28% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,684- In family households: 5,991 (1,569 male householders, 387 female householders)
1,606 spouses, 2,105 children (1,801 natural, 63 adopted, 241 stepchildren), 115 grandchildren, 33 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 93 other relatives, 76 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 693 (286 male householders (267 living alone)), 353 female householders (323 living alone)), 54 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 89 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 820 2-persons, 489 3-persons, 427 4-persons, 159 5-persons, 61 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 590 1-person, 37 2-persons, 12 3-persons,
105 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (6 men, 17 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 60
| Here: | 7.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 5.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 47
| Here: | 12.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |