Valley township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Valley township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
73% of Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 44% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 346
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 84
- South: 4
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $31,900
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 172
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,200
Housing units in Valley township with a mortgage: 27 (0 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 51
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Construction (10%)
- Food (10%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Health care (15%)
- Food (9%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Other direct selling establishments (8%)
- U. S. Postal service (6%)
- Warehousing and storage (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Food processing workers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Valley township:
- German (42.0%)
- United States or American (21.0%)
- Danish (7.5%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- French (except Basque) (3.0%)
- Norwegian (3.0%)
- English (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guatemala (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 195 (77%)
- Carpooled: 32 (13%)
- Walked: 12 (5%)
- Worked at home: 14 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (60%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
95.8% of residents of Valley township speak English at home.
3.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 44% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 457- In family households: 416 (114 male householders, 30 female householders)
113 spouses, 150 children (126 natural, 4 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 41 (25 male householders (21 living alone)), 13 female householders (13 living alone)), 3 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 70 2-persons, 31 3-persons, 23 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 3 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 34 1-person, 4 2-persons,
84 married couples with children.
13 single-parent households (6 men, 7 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% |