Clear Lake township, Hamilton County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Clear Lake township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
77% of Clear Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 65% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 639
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 80
- South: 15
- West: 15
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 283
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 10
- 5 to 9: 1
- 10 to 19: 13
- Mobile homes: 1
Housing units in Clear Lake township with a mortgage: 128 (14 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 80
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (24%)
- Construction (10%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (22%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (13%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Other direct selling establishments (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (22%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (14%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Computer specialists (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Clear Lake township:
- German (29.2%)
- Norwegian (20.1%)
- English (10.8%)
- Swedish (10.1%)
- United States or American (9.5%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- Danish (5.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Costa Rica (50%)
- Mexico (36%)
- Other Australian and New Zealand Subregion (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 291 (76%)
- Carpooled: 43 (11%)
- Bicycle: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 36 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (46%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (42%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.5% of residents of Clear Lake township speak English at home.
2.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 6% speak English not well, 24% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (75% speak English very well, 25% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 767- In family households: 663 (194 male householders, 27 female householders)
199 spouses, 226 children (219 natural, 3 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 6 other relatives, 8 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 104 (41 male householders (30 living alone)), 40 female householders (38 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 102 2-persons, 43 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 22 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 68 1-person, 10 2-persons, 1 3-persons, 2 6-persons,
183 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (10 men, 13 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): 6
| Here: | 13.6% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
| Here: | 43.8% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |