Howard township, Story County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 33 (37% naturalized citizens)
| Howard township: | 33.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
52% of Howard township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 43% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10692
- Northeast: 1524
- Midwest: 961
- South: 2003
- West: 326
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $94,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,040
- One, attached: 66
- Two: 71
- 3 or 4: 69
- 5 to 9: 57
- 10 to 19: 28
- 20 to 49: 16
- 50 or more: 87
- Mobile homes: 913
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,800
Housing units in Howard township with a mortgage: 3,417 (323 second mortgage, 458 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 531
- Educational services (11%)
- Construction (9%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (15%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Howard township:
- United States or American (16.2%)
- English (11.7%)
- German (7.5%)
- Irish (6.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.9%)
- Italian (2.5%)
- Scottish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (51%)
- Germany (7%)
- Poland (4%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Taiwan (3%)
- Canada (3%)
- Dominican Republic (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,739 (80%)
- Carpooled: 1,293 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Walked: 118 (1%)
- Other means: 63 (1%)
- Worked at home: 186 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (19%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Utility gas (2%)
- Wood (1%)
92.5% of residents of Howard township speak English at home.
5.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (49% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 13% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 3% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (45% speak English very well, 42% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (89% speak English very well, 11% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 16,118- In family households: 14,248 (3,392 male householders, 1,082 female householders)
3,640 spouses, 5,285 children (4,896 natural, 97 adopted, 292 stepchildren), 250 grandchildren, 100 brothers or sisters, 67 parents, 202 other relatives, 230 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,870 (663 male householders (486 living alone)), 827 female householders (735 living alone)), 380 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 179 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,628 2-persons, 1,218 3-persons, 1,031 4-persons, 387 5-persons, 166 6-persons, 44 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,221 1-person, 197 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 13 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
533 married couples with children.
69 single-parent households (12 men, 57 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 145
| Here: | 6.3% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 48
| Here: | 5.4% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 203
| Here: | 36.5% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |