Marion township, Hamilton County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Marion township: | 0.2% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
65% of Marion township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 46% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 922
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 64
- South: 34
- West: 20
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $65,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
66 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 368
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 9
- Mobile homes: 32
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,700
Housing units in Marion township with a mortgage: 103 (6 second mortgage, 4 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 130
- Construction (26%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (12%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Paper (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Health care (11%)
- Wood products (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Transportation equipment (5%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (9%)
- Carpenters (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Marion township:
- Swedish (36.5%)
- German (20.6%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- Norwegian (9.2%)
- English (5.3%)
- United States or American (5.1%)
- Danish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 382 (81%)
- Carpooled: 46 (10%)
- Bicycle: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 16 (3%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 22 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (69%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (26%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
66 people in nursing homes
95.8% of residents of Marion township speak English at home.
1.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (74% speak English very well, 16% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
2.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (43% speak English very well, 57% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 980- In family households: 810 (216 male householders, 46 female householders)
217 spouses, 313 children (286 natural, 9 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 170 (58 male householders (48 living alone)), 89 female householders (81 living alone)), 23 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 65 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 140 2-persons, 35 3-persons, 48 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 129 1-person, 16 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
197 married couples with children.
28 single-parent households (17 men, 11 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 8
Here: | 6.4% |
Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.9% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
Here: | 13.6% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |