Rock Creek township, Jasper County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (73% naturalized citizens)
| Rock Creek township: | 2.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
58% of Rock Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 23% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 783
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 59
- South: 15
- West: 45
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.8% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 412
- Mobile homes: 45
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,900
Housing units in Rock Creek township with a mortgage: 143 (0 second mortgage, 37 home equity loan, 9 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 69
- Construction (25%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (16%)
- Paper (14%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (9%)
- Food (6%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Educational services (22%)
- Health care (18%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- U. S. Postal service (7%)
- Food (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (18%)
- Farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (11%)
- Carpenters (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (13%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Rock Creek township:
- German (43.3%)
- Irish (14.8%)
- Norwegian (10.0%)
- Dutch (6.8%)
- United States or American (6.3%)
- English (6.0%)
- Swiss (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (42%)
- Canada (19%)
- Korea (15%)
- Vietnam (15%)
- Japan (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 414 (84%)
- Carpooled: 58 (12%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 14 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (54%)
- Utility gas (22%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Wood (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
95.4% of residents of Rock Creek township speak English at home.
2.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 954- In family households: 852 (263 male householders, 35 female householders)
276 spouses, 238 children (218 natural, 7 adopted, 13 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 15 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 102 (55 male householders (46 living alone)), 33 female householders (33 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 174 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 55 4-persons, 40 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 79 1-person, 9 3-persons,
178 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (15 men, 16 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |