Center township, Mills County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 11 (62% naturalized citizens)
Center township: | 11.2% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
73% of Center township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 76% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 47% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 5039
- Northeast: 145
- Midwest: 101
- South: 730
- West: 33
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $29,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,656
- One, attached: 36
- Two: 52
- 3 or 4: 54
- 10 to 19: 15
- 20 to 49: 12
- 50 or more: 6
- Mobile homes: 978
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,500
Housing units in Center township with a mortgage: 468 (17 second mortgage, 97 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 560
- Construction (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (5%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Center township:
- United States or American (24.0%)
- English (5.8%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Irish (2.3%)
- German (2.3%)
- Scottish (1.4%)
- African (0.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (80%)
- Poland (11%)
- Japan (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,800 (79%)
- Carpooled: 287 (13%)
- Taxi: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 88 (4%)
- Other means: 33 (1%)
- Worked at home: 62 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (42%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (41%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Wood (1%)
96.7% of residents of Center township speak English at home.
2.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (90% speak English very well, 10% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 6,105- In family households: 5,179 (1,112 male householders, 572 female householders)
1,162 spouses, 1,819 children (1,667 natural, 27 adopted, 125 stepchildren), 292 grandchildren, 41 brothers or sisters, 34 parents, 89 other relatives, 58 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 926 (376 male householders (305 living alone)), 446 female householders (429 living alone)), 104 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 10 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 781 2-persons, 382 3-persons, 301 4-persons, 133 5-persons, 69 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 734 1-person, 78 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
117 married couples with children.
21 single-parent households (12 men, 9 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
Here: | 2.3% |
Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 32
Here: | 8.6% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
Here: | 3.8% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |