Kniest township, Carroll County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Kniest township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Kniest township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 9% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 73% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 265
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 50
- South: 74
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 150
- Mobile homes: 72
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $40,000
Housing units in Kniest township with a mortgage: 35 (2 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 26
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (53%)
- Construction (9%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Social assistance (15%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Radio, TV, and computer stores (11%)
- Clothing and accessories, including shoe, stores (7%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (7%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (44%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Religious workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (18%)
- Registered nurses (17%)
- Child care workers (15%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Kniest township:
- United States or American (30.0%)
- German (16.0%)
- Irish (13.6%)
- English (11.1%)
- Scottish (2.9%)
- European (2.5%)
- Welsh (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 153 (85%)
- Carpooled: 19 (11%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 6 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (48%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (36%)
- Wood (15%)
99.5% of residents of Kniest township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 405- In family households: 369 (123 male householders, 12 female householders)
118 spouses, 90 children (66 natural, 2 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 5 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 36 (12 male householders (12 living alone)), 19 female householders (14 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 79 2-persons, 30 3-persons, 23 4-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 26 1-person, 5 2-persons,
144 married couples with children.
7 single-parent households (4 men, 3 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): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 6
Here: | 60.0% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |