Colony township, Delaware County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 27 (25% naturalized citizens)
| Colony township: | 26.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
52% of Colony township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 74% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 24% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 13406
- Northeast: 178
- Midwest: 2657
- South: 3464
- West: 382
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,243
- One, attached: 273
- Two: 1,418
- 3 or 4: 346
- 5 to 9: 344
- 10 to 19: 124
- 20 to 49: 79
- 50 or more: 27
- Mobile homes: 487
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,100
Housing units in Colony township with a mortgage: 2,560 (201 second mortgage, 82 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,344
- Metal and metal products (26%)
- Construction (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Transportation equipment (3%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Health care (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cashiers (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Colony township:
- United States or American (16.3%)
- English (6.5%)
- Irish (4.4%)
- German (3.9%)
- African (2.1%)
- European (1.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (41%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (13%)
- Korea (10%)
- El Salvador (9%)
- Germany (6%)
- Canada (5%)
- Poland (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,455 (83%)
- Carpooled: 1,041 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 3 (0%)
- Taxi: 25 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 166 (2%)
- Other means: 43 (1%)
- Worked at home: 17 (0%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (74%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
97.1% of residents of Colony township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (48% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 7% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (65% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 15% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (23% speak English very well, 45% speak English well, 32% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 20,104- In family households: 17,498 (3,562 male householders, 1,838 female householders)
3,569 spouses, 6,406 children (5,820 natural, 143 adopted, 443 stepchildren), 1,026 grandchildren, 232 brothers or sisters, 133 parents, 362 other relatives, 370 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,606 (936 male householders (787 living alone)), 1,375 female householders (1,274 living alone)), 295 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 275 (199 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,212 2-persons, 1,323 3-persons, 980 4-persons, 529 5-persons, 203 6-persons, 153 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,061 1-person, 231 2-persons, 15 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
208 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (14 men, 9 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 127
| Here: | 4.8% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 38
| Here: | 3.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 41
| Here: | 6.1% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |