Garden Grove township, Decatur County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 85 (20% naturalized citizens)
Garden Grove township: | 85.0% |
Whole state: | 3.1% |
42% of Garden Grove township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 41% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 12171
- Northeast: 376
- Midwest: 2591
- South: 4099
- West: 1364
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $82,800
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 5,655
- One, attached: 248
- Two: 214
- 3 or 4: 600
- 5 to 9: 272
- 10 to 19: 403
- 20 to 49: 222
- 50 or more: 237
- Mobile homes: 405
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,500
Housing units in Garden Grove township with a mortgage: 2,692 (400 second mortgage, 147 home equity loan, 21 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,471
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (33%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Food (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Plastics and rubber products (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- U. S. Postal service (8%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (26%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (12%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garden Grove township:
- United States or American (28.1%)
- English (13.6%)
- German (11.2%)
- Irish (10.0%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.1%)
- Scottish (2.3%)
- French (except Basque) (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (13%)
- Canada (12%)
- Other Eastern Europe (11%)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (8%)
- Romania (7%)
- El Salvador (5%)
- Germany (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 6,891 (80%)
- Carpooled: 1,036 (12%)
- Taxi: 6 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 7 (0%)
- Bicycle: 12 (0%)
- Walked: 395 (5%)
- Other means: 75 (1%)
- Worked at home: 215 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Electricity (38%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Wood (2%)
95.7% of residents of Garden Grove township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 15% speak English well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 5% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (80% speak English very well, 20% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 18,194- In family households: 15,433 (4,251 male householders, 1,014 female householders)
4,322 spouses, 5,004 children (4,471 natural, 263 adopted, 270 stepchildren), 249 grandchildren, 107 brothers or sisters, 89 parents, 181 other relatives, 216 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,761 (921 male householders (748 living alone)), 1,401 female householders (1,300 living alone)), 439 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 2,892 (310 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,471 2-persons, 1,205 3-persons, 1,080 4-persons, 380 5-persons, 84 6-persons, 45 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,048 1-person, 196 2-persons, 43 3-persons, 13 4-persons, 10 6-persons, 12 7-or-more-persons,
88 married couples with children.
27 single-parent households (3 men, 24 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 243
Here: | 12.1% |
Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 177
Here: | 17.9% |
Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2,661
Here: | 76.6% |
Iowa: | 25.4% |