Valley township, Guthrie County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Valley township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
61% of Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 55% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1638
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 138
- South: 37
- West: 70
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $27,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
97 people in nursing homes
6 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 755
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 25
- 3 or 4: 35
- 5 to 9: 59
- 10 to 19: 17
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,800
Housing units in Valley township with a mortgage: 252 (5 second mortgage, 26 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 286
- Construction (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Valley township:
- German (33.3%)
- English (13.4%)
- Danish (10.0%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- United States or American (9.3%)
- Norwegian (4.9%)
- Dutch (3.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Guatemala (50%)
- Mexico (15%)
- Canada (15%)
- Ukraine (10%)
- Korea (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 688 (78%)
- Carpooled: 110 (12%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 46 (5%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 32 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (78%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97 people in nursing homes
6 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
96.9% of residents of Valley township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,809- In family households: 1,500 (402 male householders, 117 female householders)
404 spouses, 538 children (478 natural, 30 adopted, 30 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 3 other relatives, 14 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 309 (73 male householders (57 living alone)), 199 female householders (190 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 102 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 280 2-persons, 94 3-persons, 101 4-persons, 27 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 247 1-person, 18 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
322 married couples with children.
110 single-parent households (36 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
| Here: | 0.9% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 22.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |