Summerset township, Adair County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 19 (5% naturalized citizens)
Summerset township: | 19.3% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Summerset township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 59% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3661
- Northeast: 225
- Midwest: 70
- South: 511
- West: 40
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
49 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 964
- One, attached: 24
- Two: 12
- Mobile homes: 903
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,900
Housing units in Summerset township with a mortgage: 461 (55 second mortgage, 52 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 257
- Construction (14%)
- Textile mills and textile products (7%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Truck transportation (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Health care (15%)
- Textile mills and textile products (13%)
- Finance and insurance (13%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (9%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Summerset township:
- United States or American (26.5%)
- English (9.7%)
- German (5.2%)
- Irish (4.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.4%)
- African (2.3%)
- European (1.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (87%)
- Pakistan (5%)
- Germany (5%)
- Haiti (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,716 (79%)
- Carpooled: 388 (18%)
- Bicycle: 14 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (0%)
- Other means: 32 (1%)
- Worked at home: 11 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (54%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (11%)
- Utility gas (9%)
- Wood (5%)
49 people in nursing homes
93.7% of residents of Summerset township speak English at home.
4.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (18% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 47% speak English not well, 21% don't speak English at all).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 8% speak English well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,701- In family households: 4,273 (945 male householders, 406 female householders)
1,035 spouses, 1,434 children (1,296 natural, 16 adopted, 122 stepchildren), 165 grandchildren, 37 brothers or sisters, 49 parents, 82 other relatives, 120 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 428 (198 male householders (176 living alone)), 168 female householders (160 living alone)), 62 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 24 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 533 2-persons, 327 3-persons, 258 4-persons, 150 5-persons, 47 6-persons, 36 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 336 1-person, 20 2-persons, 10 5-persons,
176 married couples with children.
48 single-parent households (18 men, 30 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 45
Here: | 7.6% |
Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 26
Here: | 10.6% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 4.7% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |