Union township, Shelby County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (43% naturalized citizens)
| Union township: | 0.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
70% of Union township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 770
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 123
- South: 28
- West: 54
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 341
- 3 or 4: 7
- Mobile homes: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,500
Housing units in Union township with a mortgage: 86 (5 second mortgage, 1 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 125
- Construction (12%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (9%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Utilities (6%)
- Health care (21%)
- Other direct selling establishments (11%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (10%)
- Personal and laundry services (7%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Pharmacies and drug stores (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (9%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Personal appearance workers (7%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Union township:
- German (69.2%)
- United States or American (6.1%)
- Irish (3.6%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
- French (except Basque) (1.6%)
- Danish (1.4%)
- English (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Thailand (43%)
- Mexico (43%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 365 (78%)
- Carpooled: 56 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 16 (3%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 26 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (53%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Solar energy (1%)
95.0% of residents of Union township speak English at home.
4.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (42% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well, 8% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 997- In family households: 925 (246 male householders, 33 female householders)
252 spouses, 381 children (374 natural, 7 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 3 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 72 (25 male householders (20 living alone)), 42 female householders (42 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 113 2-persons, 48 3-persons, 61 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 62 1-person, 5 2-persons,
219 married couples with children.
43 single-parent households (9 men, 34 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 35
| Here: | 25.7% |
| 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: 7
| Here: | 77.8% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |