Pleasant Grove township, Des Moines County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant Grove township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
69% of Pleasant Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 84% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 839
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 76
- South: 127
- West: 57
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $36,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 422
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 55
Median worth of mobile homes: $11,100
Housing units in Pleasant Grove township with a mortgage: 121 (3 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 127
- Construction (21%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Rail transportation (4%)
- Utilities (3%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Health care (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Food (10%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (13%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Rail and water transportation workers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (13%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (6%)
- Personal appearance workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant Grove township:
- United States or American (27.7%)
- German (21.9%)
- Irish (17.5%)
- English (11.6%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
- Dutch (2.1%)
- British (1.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 332 (79%)
- Carpooled: 50 (12%)
- Walked: 9 (2%)
- Other means: 9 (2%)
- Worked at home: 22 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (50%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (11%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
95.0% of residents of Pleasant Grove township speak English at home.
3.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
0.7% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,109- In family households: 971 (276 male householders, 61 female householders)
274 spouses, 278 children (228 natural, 15 adopted, 35 stepchildren), 30 grandchildren, 21 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 15 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 138 (81 male householders (74 living alone)), 41 female householders (36 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 165 2-persons, 91 3-persons, 44 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 17 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 110 1-person, 9 2-persons, 3 4-persons,
105 married couples with children.
24 single-parent households (6 men, 18 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
| Here: | 5.9% |
| 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: 3
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |