Farmington township, Cedar County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (39% naturalized citizens)
| Farmington township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Farmington 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, 58% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4208
- Northeast: 36
- Midwest: 223
- South: 443
- West: 150
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $14,100
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,651
- One, attached: 16
- Two: 50
- 3 or 4: 88
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 56
- 20 to 49: 46
- Mobile homes: 306
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,200
Housing units in Farmington township with a mortgage: 439 (30 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 558
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (19%)
- Wood products (16%)
- Construction (11%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (5%)
- Paper (5%)
- Truck transportation (3%)
- Food and beverage stores (3%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Wood products (9%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (13%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Religious workers (4%)
- Cashiers (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Farmington township:
- United States or American (19.2%)
- Irish (5.4%)
- English (5.3%)
- German (2.0%)
- Lebanese (1.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (0.6%)
- Italian (0.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (61%)
- Sierra Leone (39%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,449 (78%)
- Carpooled: 286 (15%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 103 (6%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 14 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (61%)
- Electricity (29%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Wood (3%)
11 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
97.7% of residents of Farmington township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (57% speak English very well, 10% speak English well, 23% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
0.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,800- In family households: 4,163 (938 male householders, 400 female householders)
904 spouses, 1,440 children (1,396 natural, 15 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 259 grandchildren, 48 brothers or sisters, 17 parents, 58 other relatives, 99 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 637 (285 male householders (260 living alone)), 311 female householders (292 living alone)), 41 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 288 (250 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 600 2-persons, 276 3-persons, 255 4-persons, 151 5-persons, 24 6-persons, 32 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 552 1-person, 44 2-persons,
436 married couples with children.
104 single-parent households (27 men, 77 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): 10
| Here: | 2.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 12.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |