Taylor township, Dubuque County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (24% naturalized citizens)
| Taylor township: | 3.4% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
70% of Taylor township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 78% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 48% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2864
- Northeast: 47
- Midwest: 157
- South: 39
- West: 34
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $74,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
84 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
17 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 991
- One, attached: 15
- Two: 41
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 39
- 10 to 19: 21
- 20 to 49: 13
- Mobile homes: 45
Median worth of mobile homes: $19,200
Housing units in Taylor township with a mortgage: 465 (23 second mortgage, 123 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 284
- Construction (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Child care workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Taylor township:
- German (60.9%)
- Irish (15.7%)
- United States or American (7.6%)
- English (2.8%)
- Norwegian (1.3%)
- Polish (1.2%)
- French (except Basque) (0.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (47%)
- Netherlands (6%)
- Italy (6%)
- Hong Kong (6%)
- Indonesia (6%)
- Canada (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,246 (76%)
- Carpooled: 184 (11%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 87 (5%)
- Other means: 6 (0%)
- Worked at home: 119 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6%)
- Wood (1%)
84 people in college dormitories (includes college quarters off campus)
17 people in other nonhousehold living situations
95.3% of residents of Taylor township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 59% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 22% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (19% speak English very well, 81% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,156- In family households: 2,870 (711 male householders, 148 female householders)
740 spouses, 1,157 children (1,099 natural, 17 adopted, 41 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 59 brothers or sisters, 3 parents, 11 other relatives, 32 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 286 (111 male householders (98 living alone)), 145 female householders (130 living alone)), 30 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 109 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 313 2-persons, 215 3-persons, 165 4-persons, 109 5-persons, 37 6-persons, 20 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 228 1-person, 26 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
817 married couples with children.
129 single-parent households (35 men, 94 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 119
| Here: | 29.7% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 29
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 100
| Here: | 55.2% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |