Fern Valley township, Palo Alto County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 8 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Fern Valley township: | 8.2% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
60% of Fern Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 34% 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: 243
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 8
- South: 5
- West: 12
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 1.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 90
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Fern Valley township with a mortgage: 11 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 19
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (51%)
- Recyclable material merchant wholesalers (12%)
- Construction (7%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Warehousing and storage (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (12%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Food (6%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (23%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (15%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Registered nurses (18%)
- Waiters and waitresses (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Accountants and auditors (6%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fern Valley township:
- German (58.5%)
- Irish (14.6%)
- Swiss (9.8%)
- Yugoslavian (7.3%)
- English (3.8%)
- Norwegian (3.8%)
- Polish (0.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 101 (59%)
- Carpooled: 19 (11%)
- Walked: 6 (4%)
- Worked at home: 44 (26%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (80%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Utility gas (2%)
90.8% of residents of Fern Valley township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
7.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (24% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 24% speak English not well, 24% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 289- In family households: 261 (46 male householders, 19 female householders)
62 spouses, 114 children (114 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 28 (19 male householders (19 living alone)), 9 female householders (9 living alone)), 0 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 8 2-persons, 10 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 18 5-persons, 1 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 28 1-person,
89 married couples with children.
6 single-parent households (2 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 20.0% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 40.0% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |