Tippecanoe township, Henry County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Tippecanoe township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Tippecanoe township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 73% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 72% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 689
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 114
- South: 25
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 288
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 89
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $20,700
Housing units in Tippecanoe township with a mortgage: 115 (8 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 53
- Construction (14%)
- Food (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (5%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (14%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Social scientists and related workers (5%)
- Legal support workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Tippecanoe township:
- German (38.1%)
- United States or American (29.2%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- English (4.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.8%)
- Scottish (2.8%)
- Swedish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Iran (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 347 (72%)
- Carpooled: 100 (21%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 28 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (75%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (8%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
97.0% of residents of Tippecanoe township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 853- In family households: 778 (234 male householders, 46 female householders)
252 spouses, 230 children (219 natural, 0 adopted, 11 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 10 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 75 (31 male householders (22 living alone)), 22 female householders (17 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 140 2-persons, 72 3-persons, 42 4-persons, 19 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 39 1-person, 9 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 1 5-persons,
176 married couples with children.
28 single-parent households (9 men, 19 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
Here: | 4.3% |
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: 6
Here: | 30.0% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |