Eureka township, Sac County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (49% naturalized citizens)
| Eureka township: | 4.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
70% of Eureka township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 762
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 94
- South: 16
- West: 62
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 412
- 3 or 4: 15
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $65,000
Housing units in Eureka township with a mortgage: 132 (9 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 151
- Construction (43%)
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (3%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Social assistance (11%)
- Construction (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Electricians (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (12%)
- Child care workers (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Eureka township:
- German (51.8%)
- Irish (8.7%)
- English (7.7%)
- United States or American (6.9%)
- Swedish (4.4%)
- Danish (3.3%)
- Norwegian (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (37%)
- Vietnam (21%)
- United Kingdom (12%)
- Germany (7%)
- France (5%)
- Laos (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 346 (71%)
- Carpooled: 49 (10%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 52 (11%)
- Worked at home: 38 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Wood (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
93.4% of residents of Eureka township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (30% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 27% speak English not well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
1.6% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (47% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 20% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 979- In family households: 833 (250 male householders, 38 female householders)
231 spouses, 297 children (257 natural, 10 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 3 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 146 (57 male householders (49 living alone)), 69 female householders (64 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 149 2-persons, 54 3-persons, 42 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 18 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 113 1-person, 8 2-persons, 3 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
211 married couples with children.
53 single-parent households (12 men, 41 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 1.5% |
| 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: 6
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |