Buncombe township, Sioux County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (30% naturalized citizens)
| Buncombe township: | 3.7% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
70% of Buncombe 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, 41% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1246
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 454
- South: 34
- West: 91
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
62 people in nursing homes
2 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 703
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 31
- 3 or 4: 44
- 5 to 9: 32
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,300
Housing units in Buncombe township with a mortgage: 282 (14 second mortgage, 21 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 281
- Construction (24%)
- Public administration (14%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (9%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Rail transportation (8%)
- U. S. Postal service (8%)
- Finance and insurance (18%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (12%)
- Farm product raw materials merchant wholesalers (12%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (12%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (12%)
- Health care (10%)
- Food (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (28%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (12%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (12%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Cashiers (9%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Buncombe township:
- German (31.3%)
- Dutch (15.7%)
- Norwegian (6.7%)
- United States or American (6.7%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- English (5.9%)
- Swedish (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (56%)
- Netherlands (14%)
- Korea (11%)
- Vietnam (8%)
- Guatemala (7%)
- Portugal (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 725 (83%)
- Carpooled: 77 (9%)
- Walked: 34 (4%)
- Worked at home: 42 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
62 people in nursing homes
2 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
94.1% of residents of Buncombe township speak English at home.
4.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 40% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (77% speak English very well, 23% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,849- In family households: 1,574 (473 male householders, 60 female householders)
461 spouses, 526 children (461 natural, 22 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 33 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 275 (96 male householders (82 living alone)), 157 female householders (152 living alone)), 22 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 66 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 281 2-persons, 88 3-persons, 97 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 17 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 234 1-person, 14 2-persons, 4 4-persons, 1 5-persons,
354 married couples with children.
90 single-parent households (23 men, 67 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
| Here: | 1.4% |
| 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: 12
| Here: | 42.9% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |