Washington township, Webster County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (63% naturalized citizens)
| Washington township: | 1.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Washington township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 657
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 25
- South: 5
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 289
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 12
- 10 to 19: 5
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,500
Housing units in Washington township with a mortgage: 82 (6 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 76
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Chemicals (11%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (6%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Health care (23%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Other direct selling establishments (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Health and personal care, except drug, stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (12%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (13%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Washington township:
- German (23.6%)
- Irish (15.0%)
- Norwegian (11.9%)
- English (9.3%)
- United States or American (6.9%)
- European (6.7%)
- Swedish (5.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (38%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (25%)
- Philippines (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 282 (80%)
- Carpooled: 25 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 10 (3%)
- Worked at home: 32 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (35%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.8% of residents of Washington township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 719- In family households: 610 (168 male householders, 28 female householders)
170 spouses, 220 children (201 natural, 9 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 1 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 109 (42 male householders (35 living alone)), 57 female householders (53 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 93 2-persons, 33 3-persons, 40 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 88 1-person, 11 2-persons,
145 married couples with children.
36 single-parent households (7 men, 29 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: 5
| Here: | 31.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |