Hickory Grove township, Jasper County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 64 (0% naturalized citizens)
Hickory Grove township: | 64.0% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
56% of Hickory Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 65% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2235
- Northeast: 94
- Midwest: 116
- South: 337
- West: 17
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 520
- One, attached: 3
- Two: 13
- 3 or 4: 6
- Mobile homes: 602
Median worth of mobile homes: $31,800
Housing units in Hickory Grove township with a mortgage: 186 (0 second mortgage, 31 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 197
- Food (25%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (19%)
- Construction (17%)
- Repair and maintenance (11%)
- Truck transportation (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Chemicals (43%)
- Finance and insurance (25%)
- Real estate and rental and leasing (25%)
- Food (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (28%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (13%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (11%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (68%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (18%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Hickory Grove township:
- United States or American (26.9%)
- German (9.8%)
- Irish (6.6%)
- English (3.1%)
- Dutch (2.3%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.1%)
- French (except Basque) (1.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Laos (49%)
- Honduras (23%)
- Thailand (11%)
- Mexico (9%)
- Other Central America (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,118 (78%)
- Carpooled: 197 (14%)
- Walked: 30 (2%)
- Other means: 71 (5%)
- Worked at home: 20 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (53%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
89.5% of residents of Hickory Grove township speak English at home.
3.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (82% speak English very well, 18% speak English well).
6.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (5% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 44% speak English not well, 25% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,978- In family households: 2,584 (617 male householders, 193 female householders)
646 spouses, 873 children (746 natural, 20 adopted, 107 stepchildren), 75 grandchildren, 10 brothers or sisters, 52 parents, 27 other relatives, 91 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 394 (194 male householders (148 living alone)), 99 female householders (88 living alone)), 101 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 39 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 336 2-persons, 210 3-persons, 137 4-persons, 57 5-persons, 63 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 236 1-person, 37 2-persons, 5 3-persons, 15 4-persons,
75 married couples with children.
3 single-parent households (3 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 7
Here: | 1.9% |
Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 6.4% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
Here: | 10.0% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |