Pleasant Valley township, Scott County, Iowa (IA) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (50% naturalized citizens)
| Pleasant Valley township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 3.1% |
53% of Pleasant Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in Iowa.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 18727
- Northeast: 1101
- Midwest: 9444
- South: 1763
- West: 995
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $122,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Pleasant Valley township, Iowa:
- 229 people in nursing homes
- 113 people in other group homes
- 2 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 2 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 9,691
- One, attached: 810
- Two: 250
- 3 or 4: 516
- 5 to 9: 755
- 10 to 19: 658
- 20 to 49: 523
- 50 or more: 301
- Mobile homes: 305
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Pleasant Valley township with a mortgage: 6,946 (881 second mortgage, 828 home equity loan, 30 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 2,230
- Construction (8%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Health care (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Pleasant Valley township:
- German (36.3%)
- Irish (12.6%)
- United States or American (8.5%)
- English (8.4%)
- Swedish (3.2%)
- Norwegian (2.7%)
- Scottish (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (10%)
- Canada (9%)
- Germany (9%)
- Mexico (8%)
- India (5%)
- Laos (4%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 14,682 (88%)
- Carpooled: 1,175 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 69 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 4 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 15 (0%)
- Bicycle: 7 (0%)
- Walked: 192 (1%)
- Other means: 74 (0%)
- Worked at home: 544 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (89%)
- Electricity (10%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
People in group quarters in Pleasant Valley township, Iowa:
- 229 people in nursing homes
- 113 people in other group homes
- 2 people in hospitals/wards and hospices for chronically ill
- 2 people in hospices or homes for chronically ill
94.8% of residents of Pleasant Valley township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
1.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (65% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other language at home (91% speak English very well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 32,868- In family households: 28,403 (7,731 male householders, 1,551 female householders)
7,982 spouses, 10,105 children (9,329 natural, 276 adopted, 500 stepchildren), 273 grandchildren, 105 brothers or sisters, 98 parents, 228 other relatives, 330 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 4,465 (1,730 male householders (1,448 living alone)), 2,150 female householders (1,947 living alone)), 585 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 347 (234 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,927 2-persons, 2,044 3-persons, 2,046 4-persons, 957 5-persons, 247 6-persons, 61 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 3,395 1-person, 435 2-persons, 40 3-persons, 10 4-persons,
6,889 married couples with children.
1,399 single-parent households (236 men, 1,163 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 396
| Here: | 9.5% |
| Iowa: | 10.8% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 119
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Iowa: | 7.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 336
| Here: | 28.1% |
| Iowa: | 25.4% |