Guilford township, Monroe County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 148 (10% naturalized citizens)
Guilford township: | 147.6% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
63% of Guilford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4297
- Northeast: 206
- Midwest: 191
- South: 496
- West: 56
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $90,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.9% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,669
- One, attached: 17
- Two: 10
- 3 or 4: 47
- 5 to 9: 70
- 10 to 19: 26
- 20 to 49: 10
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 533
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,200
Housing units in Guilford township with a mortgage: 725 (74 second mortgage, 149 home equity loan, 4 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 398
- Construction (16%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (13%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Wood products (4%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Health care (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (7%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Apparel (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (3%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Guilford township:
- United States or American (22.2%)
- German (14.5%)
- English (9.5%)
- Irish (6.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.2%)
- Italian (2.4%)
- European (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (83%)
- Costa Rica (3%)
- Other Western Europe (2%)
- Guatemala (2%)
- Colombia (2%)
- Vietnam (1%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (1%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 2,085 (75%)
- Carpooled: 530 (19%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 57 (2%)
- Other means: 29 (1%)
- Worked at home: 79 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (37%)
- Utility gas (23%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Wood (3%)
90.3% of residents of Guilford township speak English at home.
8.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (22% speak English very well, 17% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 32% don't speak English at all).
0.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 31% speak English well).
0.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (73% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 18% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak other language at home (75% speak English very well, 10% speak English not well, 15% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,672- In family households: 4,927 (1,260 male householders, 354 female householders)
1,249 spouses, 1,605 children (1,456 natural, 34 adopted, 115 stepchildren), 95 grandchildren, 85 brothers or sisters, 45 parents, 102 other relatives, 132 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 745 (288 male householders (211 living alone)), 328 female householders (320 living alone)), 129 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 19 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 674 2-persons, 432 3-persons, 323 4-persons, 133 5-persons, 40 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 531 1-person, 62 2-persons, 14 3-persons, 6 4-persons, 3 6-persons,
67 married couples with children.
5 single-parent households (1 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 32
Here: | 4.8% |
Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 1.7% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 17
Here: | 17.2% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |