Owen township, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Owen township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
77% of Owen township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 294
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 13
- South: 8
- West: 2
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $32,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 122
Housing units in Owen township with a mortgage: 14 (1 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 14
- Truck transportation (18%)
- Construction (11%)
- Health care (9%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Warehousing and storage (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Finance and insurance (19%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (14%)
- Printing and related support activities (12%)
- Truck transportation (12%)
- Fuel dealers (10%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (18%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (17%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Construction laborers (7%)
- Electricians (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Bus drivers (14%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (12%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (10%)
- Business operations specialists (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Owen township:
- German (39.9%)
- Norwegian (22.6%)
- United States or American (14.8%)
- English (5.8%)
- Belgian (5.3%)
- Finnish (2.9%)
- Irish (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 108 (72%)
- Carpooled: 11 (7%)
- Worked at home: 32 (21%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (91%)
- Utility gas (7%)
99.7% of residents of Owen township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 322- In family households: 298 (72 male householders, 3 female householders)
71 spouses, 135 children (131 natural, 0 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 24 (13 male householders (12 living alone)), 7 female householders (4 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 18 2-persons, 19 3-persons, 15 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 2 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 16 1-person, 4 2-persons,
94 married couples with children.
8 single-parent households (2 men, 6 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 8.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |