Belknap township, Pottawattamie County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (48% naturalized citizens)
| Belknap township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Belknap township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 36% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1162
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 302
- South: 31
- West: 54
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $63,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
64 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 598
- One, attached: 28
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 14
- 5 to 9: 28
- 10 to 19: 17
Housing units in Belknap township with a mortgage: 234 (14 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 235
- Construction (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Food (9%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (3%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Food (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Belknap township:
- German (35.7%)
- United States or American (11.5%)
- English (9.9%)
- Irish (9.5%)
- Danish (5.5%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.5%)
- Dutch (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (26%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (22%)
- Other Northern Africa (22%)
- Italy (13%)
- Canada (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 616 (79%)
- Carpooled: 123 (16%)
- Walked: 18 (2%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 24 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (80%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
64 people in nursing homes
97.6% of residents of Belknap township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 12% speak English well, 18% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (11% speak English very well, 11% speak English well, 78% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,538- In family households: 1,308 (348 male householders, 81 female householders)
362 spouses, 451 children (412 natural, 8 adopted, 31 stepchildren), 20 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 10 other relatives, 34 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 230 (81 male householders (67 living alone)), 122 female householders (118 living alone)), 27 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 62 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 210 2-persons, 71 3-persons, 97 4-persons, 33 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 185 1-person, 9 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
302 married couples with children.
71 single-parent households (23 men, 48 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: 12
| Here: | 28.6% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |