Cooper township, Webster County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Cooper township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Cooper township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 408
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 27
- South: 5
- West: 14
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $16,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 214
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 7
Housing units in Cooper township with a mortgage: 59 (0 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 72
- Administrative and support and waste management services (10%)
- Food (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (5%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (4%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (12%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Book stores and news dealers (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (17%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (18%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (10%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cooper township:
- German (35.7%)
- Irish (17.2%)
- French (except Basque) (7.8%)
- United States or American (6.4%)
- Norwegian (5.5%)
- English (5.0%)
- Swedish (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Spain (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 243 (92%)
- Carpooled: 6 (2%)
- Worked at home: 14 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (29%)
- Electricity (6%)
97.8% of residents of Cooper township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 459- In family households: 365 (116 male householders, 23 female householders)
111 spouses, 75 children (68 natural, 0 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 33 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 94 (46 male householders (27 living alone)), 20 female householders (20 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 83 2-persons, 37 3-persons, 19 4-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 47 1-person, 14 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
79 married couples with children.
25 single-parent households (10 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
| Here: | 41.9% |
| 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% |