Wells township, Appanoose County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Wells township: | 1.2% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
71% of Wells township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 205
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 31
- South: 9
- West: 0
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.7%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 96
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 48
Median worth of mobile homes: $16,900
Housing units in Wells township with a mortgage: 11 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 15
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (17%)
- Construction (15%)
- Plastics and rubber products (12%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Farm product raw materials merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Transportation equipment (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Health care (13%)
- Paper (9%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (15%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Librarians, curators, and archivists (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wells township:
- German (32.5%)
- United States or American (22.5%)
- Irish (18.5%)
- Scottish (5.3%)
- English (4.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (4.6%)
- Croatian (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (67%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 83 (80%)
- Carpooled: 10 (10%)
- Walked: 4 (4%)
- Worked at home: 7 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (40%)
- Wood (23%)
- Utility gas (20%)
- Electricity (17%)
99.2% of residents of Wells township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 248- In family households: 216 (54 male householders, 20 female householders)
54 spouses, 78 children (71 natural, 4 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 4 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 32 (16 male householders (14 living alone)), 15 female householders (15 living alone)), 1 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 36 2-persons, 22 3-persons, 8 4-persons, 5 5-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 29 1-person, 2 2-persons,
31 married couples with children.
9 single-parent households (2 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
Here: | 6.5% |
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% |