Worth township, Boone County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Worth township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Worth township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 547
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 57
- South: 9
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $179,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.5%
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: 228
- Mobile homes: 16
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,900
Housing units in Worth township with a mortgage: 98 (7 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 41
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Food and beverage stores (12%)
- Construction (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Chemicals (6%)
- Health care (4%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Educational services (29%)
- Health care (16%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (16%)
- Art and design workers (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Worth township:
- German (29.5%)
- Irish (12.7%)
- Swedish (12.2%)
- Norwegian (9.4%)
- English (7.9%)
- United States or American (6.8%)
- Dutch (3.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (67%)
- Brazil (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 304 (85%)
- Carpooled: 23 (6%)
- Walked: 18 (5%)
- Worked at home: 12 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (88%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
93.2% of residents of Worth township speak English at home.
4.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (23% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 46% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 658- In family households: 619 (175 male householders, 26 female householders)
192 spouses, 210 children (179 natural, 15 adopted, 16 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 12 other relatives, 1 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 39 (21 male householders (15 living alone)), 6 female householders (2 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 87 2-persons, 49 3-persons, 30 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 10 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 17 1-person, 6 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
159 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (3 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 3.5% |
| 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% |