Fairfield township, Palo Alto County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Fairfield township: | 1.3% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
64% of Fairfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 87% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 700
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 23
- South: 67
- West: 34
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.8% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 243
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 98
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,600
Housing units in Fairfield township with a mortgage: 62 (5 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 69
- Construction (16%)
- Wood products (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Health care (22%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Waiters and waitresses (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fairfield township:
- United States or American (37.4%)
- Irish (16.6%)
- German (11.1%)
- English (8.4%)
- French (except Basque) (1.6%)
- Swedish (1.6%)
- European (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Russia (50%)
- Canada (50%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 301 (80%)
- Carpooled: 63 (17%)
- Walked: 2 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 6 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (57%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (11%)
- Wood (11%)
99.4% of residents of Fairfield township speak English at home.
0.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 834- In family households: 755 (201 male householders, 42 female householders)
205 spouses, 273 children (233 natural, 6 adopted, 34 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 9 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 79 (34 male householders (29 living alone)), 35 female householders (29 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 95 2-persons, 70 3-persons, 57 4-persons, 10 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 58 1-person, 9 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
77 married couples with children.
6 single-parent households (5 men, 1 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: 2
Here: | 5.7% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |