Spring Rock township, Clinton County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (80% naturalized citizens)
Spring Rock township: | 0.4% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
57% of Spring Rock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 984
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 129
- South: 17
- West: 19
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $47,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
45 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 425
- One, attached: 7
- Two: 9
- 3 or 4: 17
- Mobile homes: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $18,500
Housing units in Spring Rock township with a mortgage: 141 (5 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 5 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 122
- Wood products (22%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (14%)
- Truck transportation (12%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Health care (19%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (12%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (5%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Woodworkers (15%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Cashiers (14%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Spring Rock township:
- German (60.6%)
- United States or American (10.2%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- English (3.7%)
- Norwegian (3.2%)
- Dutch (2.4%)
- Belgian (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Austria (40%)
- Germany (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 405 (75%)
- Carpooled: 55 (10%)
- Motorcycle: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 33 (6%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Utility gas (36%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (14%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (4%)
- No fuel used (1%)
45 people in nursing homes
98.7% of residents of Spring Rock township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,137- In family households: 1,008 (261 male householders, 59 female householders)
256 spouses, 392 children (378 natural, 4 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 8 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 129 (64 male householders (54 living alone)), 52 female householders (51 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 45 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 159 2-persons, 46 3-persons, 58 4-persons, 32 5-persons, 19 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 105 1-person, 10 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
233 married couples with children.
57 single-parent households (11 men, 46 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 18
Here: | 12.2% |
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: 5
Here: | 18.5% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |