Yellow Springs township, Des Moines County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Yellow Springs township: | 0.5% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Yellow Springs township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 533
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 68
- South: 2
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 219
- One, attached: 1
- Mobile homes: 22
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Yellow Springs township with a mortgage: 55 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 40
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (28%)
- Truck transportation (13%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Farm product raw materials merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food (6%)
- Computer and electronic products (6%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (20%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (10%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (9%)
- Engineers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Postsecondary teachers (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Yellow Springs township:
- German (44.1%)
- English (15.2%)
- Welsh (4.8%)
- United States or American (4.5%)
- Swedish (4.3%)
- Dutch (2.9%)
- Irish (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Sweden (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 216 (71%)
- Carpooled: 18 (6%)
- Walked: 10 (3%)
- Worked at home: 59 (19%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Utility gas (26%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Wood (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
99.3% of residents of Yellow Springs township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 608- In family households: 526 (149 male householders, 24 female householders)
159 spouses, 175 children (165 natural, 0 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 82 (30 male householders (21 living alone)), 38 female householders (33 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 92 2-persons, 32 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 9 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 54 1-person, 14 2-persons,
138 married couples with children.
7 single-parent households (4 men, 3 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 28
| Here: | 35.0% |
| 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: 5
| Here: | 55.6% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |