Westfield township, Plymouth County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (78% naturalized citizens)
Westfield township: | 1.9% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
77% of Westfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 63% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 78% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 381
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 46
- South: 14
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.6% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 178
- Two: 4
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $10,000
Housing units in Westfield township with a mortgage: 75 (0 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 24
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Computer and electronic products (12%)
- Food (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Health care (19%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Food (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Broadcasting, internet publishing, and telecommunications services (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (15%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (8%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Food processing workers (7%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Waiters and waitresses (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Westfield township:
- German (45.9%)
- Irish (11.0%)
- Swedish (8.5%)
- English (8.2%)
- United States or American (6.8%)
- Norwegian (5.4%)
- Danish (3.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (33%)
- Netherlands (22%)
- India (22%)
- Other South Eastern Asia (22%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 166 (80%)
- Carpooled: 26 (13%)
- Walked: 7 (3%)
- Worked at home: 8 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (76%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Wood (4%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
99.6% of residents of Westfield township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 475- In family households: 415 (104 male householders, 18 female householders)
105 spouses, 172 children (139 natural, 4 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 7 parents, 2 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 60 (31 male householders (23 living alone)), 15 female householders (15 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 34 2-persons, 40 3-persons, 26 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 38 1-person, 2 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
100 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (8 men, 14 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% |