Big Grove township, Johnson County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Big Grove township: | 0.1% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
49% of Big Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 57% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 512
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 35
- South: 108
- West: 50
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $37,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
803 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
67 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 166
- One, attached: 9
- Mobile homes: 114
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,600
Housing units in Big Grove township with a mortgage: 34 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 55
- Construction (12%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Textile mills and textile products (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Big Grove township:
- United States or American (32.7%)
- English (13.0%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (7.8%)
- European (3.7%)
- Scottish (3.7%)
- German (2.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 229 (81%)
- Carpooled: 28 (10%)
- Walked: 11 (4%)
- Worked at home: 14 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (40%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (33%)
- Wood (20%)
- Utility gas (7%)
803 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
67 people in nursing homes
97.9% of residents of Big Grove township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 711- In family households: 642 (191 male householders, 21 female householders)
203 spouses, 218 children (199 natural, 2 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 69 (25 male householders (25 living alone)), 37 female householders (29 living alone)), 7 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 111 2-persons, 43 3-persons, 30 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 54 1-person, 8 2-persons,
750 married couples with children.
89 single-parent households (21 men, 68 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): 5
| Here: | 15.6% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |