Walnut township, Polk County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 6 (34% naturalized citizens)
| Walnut township: | 5.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
46% of Walnut township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 40576
- Northeast: 1541
- Midwest: 11548
- South: 2480
- West: 2741
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $107,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Walnut township, Iowa:
- 224 people in nursing homes
- 30 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 26 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 22 people in other group homes
- 6 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 6 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 3 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 15,151
- One, attached: 2,638
- Two: 446
- 3 or 4: 483
- 5 to 9: 1,630
- 10 to 19: 2,800
- 20 to 49: 2,846
- 50 or more: 1,172
- Mobile homes: 500
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,700
Housing units in Walnut township with a mortgage: 12,244 (1,428 second mortgage, 1,680 home equity loan, 68 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 3,341
- Finance and insurance (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (10%)
- Construction (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (21%)
- Health care (12%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
- Business operations specialists (3%)
- Accountants and auditors (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Walnut township:
- German (29.2%)
- Irish (11.2%)
- English (9.8%)
- United States or American (6.5%)
- Norwegian (4.5%)
- Dutch (3.4%)
- Swedish (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (11%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (10%)
- Russia (8%)
- Mexico (8%)
- Ecuador (6%)
- Vietnam (6%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 30,584 (85%)
- Carpooled: 2,802 (8%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 634 (2%)
- Subway or elevated: 9 (0%)
- Taxi: 19 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 18 (0%)
- Bicycle: 55 (0%)
- Walked: 471 (1%)
- Other means: 114 (0%)
- Worked at home: 1,409 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (79%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Walnut township, Iowa:
- 224 people in nursing homes
- 30 people in other nonhousehold living situations
- 26 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 24 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 22 people in other group homes
- 6 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 6 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
- 3 people in religious group quarters
91.5% of residents of Walnut township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (53% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 28% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
3.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (61% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 16% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (59% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (66% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 62,426- In family households: 49,772 (13,480 male householders, 3,108 female householders)
14,224 spouses, 16,982 children (15,561 natural, 576 adopted, 845 stepchildren), 239 grandchildren, 362 brothers or sisters, 212 parents, 367 other relatives, 798 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 12,654 (4,083 male householders (2,833 living alone)), 5,866 female householders (4,890 living alone)), 2,705 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 334 (264 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 7,716 2-persons, 3,457 3-persons, 3,527 4-persons, 1,340 5-persons, 418 6-persons, 130 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 7,723 1-person, 1,906 2-persons, 265 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 18 5-persons, 9 6-persons,
12,400 married couples with children.
2,261 single-parent households (463 men, 1,798 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 1,297
| Here: | 18.6% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 434
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 619
| Here: | 25.8% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |