Dayton township, Iowa County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 48 (31% naturalized citizens)
| Dayton township: | 47.6% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
48% of Dayton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 37% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2174
- Northeast: 146
- Midwest: 913
- South: 790
- West: 439
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $166,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 2.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,498
- One, attached: 31
- Two: 18
- Mobile homes: 177
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,400
Housing units in Dayton township with a mortgage: 803 (103 second mortgage, 45 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 237
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (28%)
- Machinery (14%)
- Construction (12%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (10%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Food and beverage stores (15%)
- Public administration (11%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (28%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (9%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Religious workers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (14%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (9%)
- Food and beverage serving workers except waiters/waitresses (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dayton township:
- United States or American (19.3%)
- German (14.9%)
- English (12.8%)
- Irish (12.6%)
- Italian (4.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (44%)
- Nicaragua (17%)
- Brazil (9%)
- Japan (7%)
- Iran (6%)
- Korea (5%)
- Canada (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,976 (87%)
- Carpooled: 146 (6%)
- Walked: 17 (1%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 128 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (72%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Wood (5%)
95.0% of residents of Dayton township speak English at home.
3.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (68% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 12% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (96% speak English very well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,446- In family households: 4,131 (1,150 male householders, 173 female householders)
1,206 spouses, 1,466 children (1,275 natural, 60 adopted, 131 stepchildren), 49 grandchildren, 26 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 9 other relatives, 42 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 315 (119 male householders (92 living alone)), 157 female householders (144 living alone)), 39 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 151 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 542 2-persons, 299 3-persons, 310 4-persons, 117 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 18 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 236 1-person, 32 2-persons, 4 3-persons, 4 4-persons,
61 married couples with children.
7 single-parent households (4 men, 3 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 38
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 17
| Here: | 5.9% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 158
| Here: | 64.8% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |