Amherst township, Cherokee County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Amherst township: | 1.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
73% of Amherst township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 77% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 267
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 17
- South: 3
- West: 2
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 92
- 3 or 4: 11
- 10 to 19: 4
- Mobile homes: 2
Housing units in Amherst township with a mortgage: 19 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 8
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (40%)
- Construction (17%)
- Food (16%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (3%)
- Farm product raw materials merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (13%)
- Apparel (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Social assistance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (33%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (9%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Cashiers (9%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Child care workers (8%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Amherst township:
- German (58.7%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- Italian (5.8%)
- Swedish (4.3%)
- United States or American (4.3%)
- Luxemburger (3.4%)
- Norwegian (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 93 (62%)
- Carpooled: 22 (15%)
- Walked: 5 (3%)
- Worked at home: 29 (19%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Utility gas (13%)
99.6% of residents of Amherst township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 297- In family households: 250 (66 male householders, 4 female householders)
61 spouses, 117 children (111 natural, 5 adopted, 1 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 47 (20 male householders (14 living alone)), 13 female householders (13 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 27 2-persons, 18 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 12 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 27 1-person, 3 2-persons, 3 5-persons,
85 married couples with children.
12 single-parent households (5 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |