Wapello township, Louisa County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (42% naturalized citizens)
| Wapello township: | 3.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Wapello township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2360
- Northeast: 22
- Midwest: 262
- South: 101
- West: 65
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
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
43 people in nursing homes
10 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 980
- One, attached: 18
- Two: 47
- 3 or 4: 36
- 5 to 9: 20
- 10 to 19: 10
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 84
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Wapello township with a mortgage: 423 (61 second mortgage, 25 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 245
- Construction (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Plastics and rubber products (6%)
- Food (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wapello township:
- German (33.0%)
- United States or American (14.6%)
- English (8.7%)
- Irish (8.1%)
- Norwegian (3.3%)
- Dutch (2.2%)
- Swedish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (85%)
- El Salvador (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,137 (80%)
- Carpooled: 168 (12%)
- Walked: 36 (3%)
- Worked at home: 74 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Wood (1%)
43 people in nursing homes
10 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
89.7% of residents of Wapello township speak English at home.
9.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,866- In family households: 2,546 (700 male householders, 139 female householders)
744 spouses, 829 children (776 natural, 10 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 34 grandchildren, 16 brothers or sisters, 15 parents, 18 other relatives, 51 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 320 (131 male householders (117 living alone)), 154 female householders (138 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 54 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 358 2-persons, 192 3-persons, 147 4-persons, 93 5-persons, 25 6-persons, 24 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 255 1-person, 30 2-persons,
552 married couples with children.
134 single-parent households (33 men, 101 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): 9
| Here: | 5.7% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 15
| Here: | 14.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |