Liberty township, Buchanan County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Liberty township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
66% of Liberty township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 992
- Northeast: 20
- Midwest: 62
- South: 47
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $18,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
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
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 386
- 5 to 9: 4
- Mobile homes: 75
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Liberty township with a mortgage: 130 (8 second mortgage, 5 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 104
- Construction (23%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Registered nurses (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Customer service representatives (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Liberty township:
- German (44.8%)
- Irish (13.3%)
- United States or American (11.0%)
- English (10.2%)
- Norwegian (3.6%)
- Polish (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (2.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Poland (60%)
- Panama (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 396 (78%)
- Carpooled: 59 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (1%)
- Walked: 12 (2%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 31 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (51%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Solar energy (1%)
98.0% of residents of Liberty township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 63% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,142- In family households: 1,003 (256 male householders, 65 female householders)
301 spouses, 334 children (328 natural, 0 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 11 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 10 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 139 (63 male householders (47 living alone)), 42 female householders (39 living alone)), 34 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 144 2-persons, 89 3-persons, 54 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 86 1-person, 15 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
236 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (25 men, 32 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 4.1% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |