Wall Lake township, Sac County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (75% naturalized citizens)
| Wall Lake township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Wall Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1365
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 151
- South: 40
- West: 31
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $73,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
36 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 823
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 28
- 5 to 9: 22
- 10 to 19: 9
- Mobile homes: 59
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Wall Lake township with a mortgage: 180 (9 second mortgage, 7 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 266
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Construction (13%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Warehousing and storage (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wall Lake township:
- German (63.8%)
- United States or American (7.4%)
- Irish (5.6%)
- English (4.3%)
- Swedish (3.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- Danish (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (50%)
- Italy (25%)
- Thailand (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 555 (81%)
- Carpooled: 59 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 32 (5%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 30 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Utility gas (32%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Wood (1%)
36 people in nursing homes
98.5% of residents of Wall Lake township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,570- In family households: 1,315 (392 male householders, 74 female householders)
393 spouses, 439 children (385 natural, 6 adopted, 48 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 255 (85 male householders (72 living alone)), 146 female householders (131 living alone)), 24 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 36 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 269 2-persons, 83 3-persons, 71 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 13 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 203 1-person, 28 2-persons,
275 married couples with children.
59 single-parent households (9 men, 50 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: 18
| Here: | 45.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |