Garner township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Garner township: | 0.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Garner township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 30% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 588
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 74
- South: 88
- West: 76
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
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
324 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
41 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 266
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 12
- 3 or 4: 8
- 20 to 49: 4
- Mobile homes: 79
Median worth of mobile homes: $29,200
Housing units in Garner township with a mortgage: 89 (3 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 63
- Construction (11%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Rail transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garner township:
- United States or American (38.7%)
- Irish (12.6%)
- English (7.7%)
- German (6.9%)
- Polish (3.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.2%)
- French Canadian (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 294 (78%)
- Carpooled: 72 (19%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 6 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Wood (24%)
- Utility gas (2%)
324 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
41 people in nursing homes
98.6% of residents of Garner township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 851- In family households: 751 (182 male householders, 61 female householders)
198 spouses, 273 children (248 natural, 7 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 18 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 2 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 100 (30 male householders (28 living alone)), 61 female householders (56 living alone)), 9 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 108 2-persons, 66 3-persons, 39 4-persons, 13 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 84 1-person, 4 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
870 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (41 men, 96 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): 3
| Here: | 4.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |