Melville township, Audubon County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 26 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Melville township: | 25.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
48% of Melville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 57% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 61% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1075
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 151
- South: 246
- West: 107
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $42,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 455
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 16
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 14
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 165
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $26,600
Housing units in Melville township with a mortgage: 109 (4 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 127
- Food (11%)
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Food (8%)
- Leather and allied products (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Customer service representatives (7%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Food processing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Melville township:
- United States or American (28.1%)
- Irish (19.3%)
- German (12.0%)
- English (10.4%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.2%)
- Scottish (1.8%)
- Dutch (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (77%)
- Germany (13%)
- United Kingdom (10%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 552 (81%)
- Carpooled: 95 (14%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (3%)
- Other means: 3 (0%)
- Worked at home: 8 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (38%)
- Electricity (37%)
- Wood (14%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- No fuel used (2%)
96.7% of residents of Melville township speak English at home.
3.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 22% don't speak English at all).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,573- In family households: 1,349 (355 male householders, 67 female householders)
343 spouses, 460 children (358 natural, 19 adopted, 83 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 45 other relatives, 45 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 224 (109 male householders (96 living alone)), 71 female householders (55 living alone)), 44 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 68 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 176 2-persons, 87 3-persons, 95 4-persons, 39 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 151 1-person, 24 2-persons, 2 4-persons, 3 5-persons,
51 married couples with children.
10 single-parent households (3 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 2.1% |
| 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: 10
| Here: | 21.3% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |