Exira township, Audubon County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 35 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Exira township: | 35.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
54% of Exira township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 71% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 35% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 17694
- Northeast: 1871
- Midwest: 777
- South: 2549
- West: 381
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
58 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,540
- One, attached: 515
- Two: 1,024
- 3 or 4: 1,189
- 5 to 9: 1,220
- 10 to 19: 264
- 20 to 49: 190
- 50 or more: 270
- Mobile homes: 280
Median worth of mobile homes: $56,300
Housing units in Exira township with a mortgage: 2,377 (323 second mortgage, 281 home equity loan, 17 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,626
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (21%)
- Construction (16%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Chemicals (3%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Apparel (5%)
- Publishing, and motion picture and sound recording industries (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (16%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Construction laborers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (10%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Exira township:
- United States or American (7.7%)
- English (6.2%)
- German (2.9%)
- Irish (2.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.5%)
- African (1.3%)
- Italian (1.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (12%)
- Germany (11%)
- Thailand (9%)
- India (9%)
- Asia, n.e.c. (8%)
- United Kingdom (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,715 (75%)
- Carpooled: 1,657 (18%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 29 (0%)
- Taxi: 44 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 9 (0%)
- Bicycle: 66 (1%)
- Walked: 287 (3%)
- Other means: 81 (1%)
- Worked at home: 91 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (43%)
- Utility gas (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
58 people in nursing homes
95.4% of residents of Exira township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (92% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.7% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (68% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 23,151- In family households: 18,284 (3,431 male householders, 2,617 female householders)
3,355 spouses, 6,477 children (6,089 natural, 116 adopted, 272 stepchildren), 1,128 grandchildren, 253 brothers or sisters, 154 parents, 301 other relatives, 568 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,867 (1,536 male householders (1,236 living alone)), 2,711 female householders (2,479 living alone)), 620 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 884 (588 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,745 2-persons, 1,556 3-persons, 977 4-persons, 508 5-persons, 143 6-persons, 119 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,715 1-person, 468 2-persons, 43 3-persons, 16 4-persons, 5 5-persons,
191 married couples with children.
70 single-parent households (16 men, 54 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 216
| Here: | 7.4% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 125
| Here: | 9.1% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 156
| Here: | 16.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |