Pierce township, Page County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (86% naturalized citizens)
Pierce township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
67% of Pierce 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, 48% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 779
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 240
- South: 23
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $35,600
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 391
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 32
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 8
- 50 or more: 5
- Mobile homes: 35
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,000
Housing units in Pierce township with a mortgage: 152 (5 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 106
- Transportation equipment (25%)
- Metal and metal products (14%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Health care (20%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (12%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Registered nurses (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pierce township:
- Swedish (24.2%)
- German (20.4%)
- Irish (15.4%)
- United States or American (13.3%)
- English (7.4%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
- Norwegian (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (43%)
- Italy (29%)
- Philippines (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 440 (84%)
- Carpooled: 50 (10%)
- Motorcycle: 1 (0%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 27 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (63%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (3%)
- Wood (1%)
97.7% of residents of Pierce township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,090- In family households: 953 (261 male householders, 42 female householders)
277 spouses, 336 children (305 natural, 5 adopted, 26 stepchildren), 15 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 6 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 137 (64 male householders (55 living alone)), 57 female householders (51 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 145 2-persons, 65 3-persons, 57 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 3 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 106 1-person, 11 2-persons, 4 3-persons,
220 married couples with children.
44 single-parent households (11 men, 33 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% |