Sherman township, Montgomery County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Sherman township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
79% of Sherman township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 36% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 474
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 105
- South: 4
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 234
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 3
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 18
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,000
Housing units in Sherman township with a mortgage: 78 (6 second mortgage, 11 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 105
- Repair and maintenance (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Computer and electronic products (14%)
- Construction (12%)
- Gasoline stations (12%)
- Public administration (12%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Finance and insurance (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (11%)
- Other direct selling establishments (11%)
- Apparel (9%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (16%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (14%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (14%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (12%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (12%)
- Other transportation workers (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (18%)
- Other financial specialists (16%)
- Health technologists and technicians (16%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Physicians and surgeons (9%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sherman township:
- German (42.5%)
- English (13.9%)
- Swedish (13.9%)
- Irish (10.3%)
- United States or American (8.9%)
- Czech (2.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Sweden (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 221 (79%)
- Carpooled: 41 (15%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 9 (3%)
- Other means: 5 (2%)
- Worked at home: 2 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.6% of residents of Sherman township speak English at home.
2.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (94% speak English very well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 594- In family households: 531 (159 male householders, 41 female householders)
145 spouses, 157 children (137 natural, 0 adopted, 20 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 2 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 63 (27 male householders (22 living alone)), 28 female householders (26 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 116 2-persons, 37 3-persons, 36 4-persons, 11 5-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 48 1-person, 7 2-persons,
124 married couples with children.
26 single-parent households (10 men, 16 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
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: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |