Beaver township, Butler County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (50% naturalized citizens)
Beaver township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
68% of Beaver township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1188
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 94
- South: 35
- West: 29
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 488
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 7
- 10 to 19: 2
- Mobile homes: 48
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,000
Housing units in Beaver township with a mortgage: 172 (11 second mortgage, 30 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 105
- Machinery (15%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Construction (10%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Beaver township:
- German (57.4%)
- United States or American (9.1%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- English (5.8%)
- Danish (5.0%)
- Norwegian (3.0%)
- Dutch (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (50%)
- Germany (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 540 (82%)
- Carpooled: 72 (11%)
- Subway or elevated: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 10 (2%)
- Other means: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 34 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (46%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
98.5% of residents of Beaver township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,353- In family households: 1,192 (351 male householders, 55 female householders)
344 spouses, 388 children (340 natural, 8 adopted, 40 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 3 other relatives, 26 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 161 (69 male householders (50 living alone)), 64 female householders (55 living alone)), 28 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 201 2-persons, 83 3-persons, 69 4-persons, 39 5-persons, 14 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 105 1-person, 26 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
245 married couples with children.
64 single-parent households (26 men, 38 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 13
Here: | 10.7% |
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: 9
Here: | 25.0% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |