Jefferson township, Johnson County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (38% naturalized citizens)
| Jefferson township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Jefferson 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, 65% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2898
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 108
- South: 1025
- West: 103
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,220
- One, attached: 40
- Two: 243
- 3 or 4: 65
- 5 to 9: 22
- 20 to 49: 9
- 50 or more: 5
- Mobile homes: 224
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,700
Housing units in Jefferson township with a mortgage: 325 (10 second mortgage, 12 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 467
- Construction (15%)
- Computer and electronic products (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Food (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (16%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Top executives (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Jefferson township:
- United States or American (34.6%)
- Irish (8.3%)
- English (5.3%)
- German (4.7%)
- African (1.5%)
- Italian (1.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,175 (76%)
- Carpooled: 280 (18%)
- Walked: 31 (2%)
- Other means: 20 (1%)
- Worked at home: 35 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (49%)
- Electricity (32%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Wood (2%)
98.1% of residents of Jefferson township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (66% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,059- In family households: 3,502 (843 male householders, 303 female householders)
826 spouses, 1,206 children (1,128 natural, 21 adopted, 57 stepchildren), 193 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 44 other relatives, 55 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 557 (173 male householders (164 living alone)), 335 female householders (295 living alone)), 49 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 104 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 516 2-persons, 293 3-persons, 223 4-persons, 77 5-persons, 27 6-persons, 10 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 459 1-person, 40 2-persons, 9 3-persons,
942 married couples with children.
73 single-parent households (17 men, 56 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 27
| Here: | 4.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 7.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |