Wilton township, Muscatine County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (67% naturalized citizens)
| Wilton township: | 1.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Wilton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 58% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2549
- Northeast: 16
- Midwest: 482
- South: 68
- West: 93
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $81,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
23 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 980
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 44
- 3 or 4: 59
- 5 to 9: 32
- 10 to 19: 51
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 106
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,700
Housing units in Wilton township with a mortgage: 534 (39 second mortgage, 79 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 245
- Metal and metal products (15%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Construction (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Food (3%)
- Repair and maintenance (3%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (13%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Other direct selling establishments (5%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Child care workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wilton township:
- German (50.5%)
- English (11.2%)
- United States or American (10.5%)
- Irish (8.0%)
- Dutch (1.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.4%)
- Norwegian (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (31%)
- Turkey (24%)
- Mexico (11%)
- Chile (9%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- South Africa (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,434 (83%)
- Carpooled: 126 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 79 (5%)
- Other means: 17 (1%)
- Worked at home: 69 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (80%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- No fuel used (1%)
- Wood (1%)
23 people in nursing homes
96.2% of residents of Wilton township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (88% speak English very well, 12% speak English well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 7% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,251- In family households: 2,873 (776 male householders, 175 female householders)
780 spouses, 986 children (881 natural, 24 adopted, 81 stepchildren), 51 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 36 other relatives, 57 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 378 (156 male householders (133 living alone)), 177 female householders (152 living alone)), 45 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 23 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 418 2-persons, 213 3-persons, 198 4-persons, 78 5-persons, 30 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 285 1-person, 48 2-persons,
672 married couples with children.
179 single-parent households (60 men, 119 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 1.8% |
| 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: 7
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |