Van Meter township, Dallas County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (54% naturalized citizens)
Van Meter township: | 0.8% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Van Meter township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 43% 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: 2407
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 343
- South: 96
- West: 139
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $120,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 856
- One, attached: 29
- Two: 11
- 3 or 4: 43
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 11
- Mobile homes: 221
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,300
Housing units in Van Meter township with a mortgage: 460 (43 second mortgage, 75 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 142
- Construction (17%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Finance and insurance (25%)
- Health care (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Accountants and auditors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Cashiers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Van Meter township:
- German (31.2%)
- English (13.9%)
- Irish (12.0%)
- United States or American (10.4%)
- Norwegian (4.2%)
- Swedish (4.1%)
- Danish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (29%)
- United Kingdom (25%)
- Philippines (17%)
- Mexico (13%)
- Greece (8%)
- Canada (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,358 (80%)
- Carpooled: 204 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 42 (2%)
- Worked at home: 89 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Wood (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
98.1% of residents of Van Meter township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 10% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,027- In family households: 2,690 (692 male householders, 164 female householders)
741 spouses, 966 children (916 natural, 10 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 24 grandchildren, 7 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 43 other relatives, 51 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 337 (111 male householders (72 living alone)), 132 female householders (115 living alone)), 94 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 379 2-persons, 163 3-persons, 198 4-persons, 88 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 187 1-person, 49 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 1 4-persons, 4 6-persons,
704 married couples with children.
123 single-parent households (26 men, 97 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 12
Here: | 2.8% |
Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 1.2% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 14
Here: | 23.3% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |