Sugar Creek township, Poweshiek County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Sugar Creek township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
62% of Sugar Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 33% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 469
- Northeast: 24
- Midwest: 128
- South: 122
- West: 71
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $87,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 280
- Mobile homes: 71
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $62,000
Housing units in Sugar Creek township with a mortgage: 40 (6 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 31
- Construction (24%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Food (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Educational services (3%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sugar Creek township:
- United States or American (28.7%)
- German (12.7%)
- Irish (12.5%)
- English (10.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.6%)
- Belgian (2.4%)
- Northern European (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (38%)
- Mexico (23%)
- Ecuador (23%)
- Other Western Europe (15%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 282 (74%)
- Carpooled: 59 (15%)
- Walked: 4 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Electricity (28%)
- Wood (25%)
- Utility gas (8%)
- Other fuel (2%)
98.7% of residents of Sugar Creek township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 832- In family households: 734 (204 male householders, 28 female householders)
216 spouses, 238 children (208 natural, 8 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 25 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 11 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 98 (32 male householders (30 living alone)), 54 female householders (50 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 99 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 49 4-persons, 18 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 80 1-person, 4 2-persons, 2 4-persons,
89 married couples with children.
16 single-parent households (8 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 4
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 16.7% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |