Wesley township, Kossuth County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (0% naturalized citizens)
Wesley township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
71% of Wesley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 58% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 524
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 49
- South: 17
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $22,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 241
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 13
- Mobile homes: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $75,000
Housing units in Wesley township with a mortgage: 74 (5 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 101
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Construction (8%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (17%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wesley township:
- German (60.9%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- Norwegian (6.1%)
- English (5.0%)
- United States or American (4.6%)
- Danish (1.7%)
- Czech (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Philippines (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 212 (79%)
- Carpooled: 24 (9%)
- Bicycle: 8 (3%)
- Walked: 8 (3%)
- Worked at home: 18 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (15%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (8%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Wood (1%)
98.6% of residents of Wesley township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 609- In family households: 520 (157 male householders, 14 female householders)
149 spouses, 188 children (180 natural, 3 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 89 (33 male householders (25 living alone)), 49 female householders (49 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 89 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 6 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 74 1-person, 6 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
155 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (6 men, 25 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 37
Here: | 46.8% |
Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
Here: | 44.1% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |