Walnut township, Appanoose County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Walnut township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Walnut township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 66% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 850
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 144
- South: 26
- West: 35
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.7% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 419
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 1
- 5 to 9: 4
- 10 to 19: 3
- Mobile homes: 61
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,900
Housing units in Walnut township with a mortgage: 102 (3 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 132
- Plastics and rubber products (13%)
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Metal and metal products (9%)
- Utilities (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (7%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Walnut township:
- German (16.7%)
- English (16.1%)
- United States or American (11.6%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- Italian (7.1%)
- Croatian (5.1%)
- Polish (4.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (50%)
- Canada (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 381 (80%)
- Carpooled: 52 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (2%)
- Other means: 6 (1%)
- Worked at home: 23 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (74%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
96.9% of residents of Walnut township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 43% speak English well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,071- In family households: 914 (249 male householders, 39 female householders)
264 spouses, 320 children (276 natural, 13 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 5 other relatives, 24 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 157 (69 male householders (52 living alone)), 59 female householders (53 living alone)), 29 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 124 2-persons, 70 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 29 5-persons, 7 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 105 1-person, 18 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
182 married couples with children.
49 single-parent households (27 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
Here: | 3.3% |
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: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |