Selected Characteristics of Principal Farm Operators
| Source: | 2012 Census of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Units: | Percentage of principal farm operators |
| Additional data: | Download historical data (1997-2012) in Excel |
| FIPS | Area Name | Female | Under 35 Years | 65 Years or Older | Worked Any Days Off Farm |
Worked 200+ Days Off Farm |
Primary Occupation is Farming |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19000 | State of Iowa | 8.0 | 7.0 | 29.5 | 57.5 | 37.9 | 54.1 |
| 19001 | Adair | 6.6 | 6.3 | 35.5 | 57.4 | 41.3 | 55.2 |
| 19003 | Adams | 7.3 | 8.1 | 30.8 | 58.5 | 40.7 | 53.3 |
| 19005 | Allamakee | 8.6 | 7.9 | 27.4 | 56.5 | 38.8 | 41.5 |
| 19007 | Appanoose | 8.1 | 11.0 | 34.0 | 61.4 | 37.0 | 46.1 |
| 19009 | Audubon | 6.9 | 5.3 | 32.2 | 49.8 | 35.7 | 61.1 |
| 19011 | Benton | 9.5 | 7.5 | 30.1 | 60.2 | 39.7 | 54.3 |
| 19013 | Black Hawk | 5.5 | 5.6 | 37.1 | 51.5 | 35.8 | 55.6 |
| 19015 | Boone | 10.3 | 8.7 | 28.5 | 62.9 | 41.9 | 49.7 |
| 19017 | Bremer | 6.6 | 6.1 | 30.8 | 63.7 | 34.7 | 49.1 |
| 19019 | Buchanan | 5.5 | 9.5 | 25.7 | 56.4 | 38.8 | 57.6 |
| 19021 | Buena Vista | 6.3 | 11.1 | 24.5 | 48.7 | 26.3 | 65.3 |
| 19023 | Butler | 7.1 | 7.8 | 30.4 | 61.1 | 41.5 | 51.3 |
| 19025 | Calhoun | 11.3 | 6.7 | 35.1 | 48.7 | 30.3 | 52.7 |
| 19027 | Carroll | 5.4 | 7.9 | 26.1 | 55.2 | 35.4 | 57.0 |
| 19029 | Cass | 6.1 | 6.3 | 34.4 | 53.9 | 34.4 | 50.2 |
| 19031 | Cedar | 8.6 | 5.0 | 25.3 | 60.1 | 37.4 | 51.8 |
| 19033 | Cerro Gordo | 7.7 | 5.9 | 32.7 | 57.2 | 37.4 | 59.0 |
| 19035 | Cherokee | 4.6 | 8.7 | 24.3 | 54.7 | 38.6 | 64.0 |
| 19037 | Chickasaw | 6.9 | 16.2 | 20.9 | 60.8 | 40.3 | 55.5 |
| 19039 | Clarke | 9.6 | 6.2 | 29.2 | 67.0 | 52.6 | 35.9 |
| 19041 | Clay | 6.1 | 6.1 | 25.3 | 55.6 | 36.4 | 57.6 |
| 19043 | Clayton | 7.4 | 6.5 | 26.5 | 58.5 | 37.2 | 50.3 |
| 19045 | Clinton | 6.0 | 8.8 | 28.2 | 53.9 | 33.2 | 63.1 |
| 19047 | Crawford | 6.3 | 9.7 | 28.1 | 50.7 | 34.7 | 61.7 |
| 19049 | Dallas | 10.7 | 6.7 | 25.8 | 65.5 | 47.5 | 43.7 |
| 19051 | Davis | 6.7 | 11.7 | 25.0 | 72.6 | 43.9 | 44.1 |
| 19053 | Decatur | 11.7 | 6.8 | 29.0 | 61.6 | 44.2 | 44.6 |
| 19055 | Delaware | 7.6 | 7.3 | 19.7 | 57.7 | 41.8 | 60.2 |
| 19057 | Des Moines | 11.3 | 4.8 | 39.8 | 57.8 | 38.2 | 46.5 |
| 19059 | Dickinson | 9.1 | 5.7 | 25.4 | 50.6 | 30.8 | 58.0 |
| 19061 | Dubuque | 5.2 | 8.1 | 25.0 | 58.8 | 43.8 | 52.5 |
| 19063 | Emmet | 9.1 | 6.9 | 25.9 | 49.9 | 31.4 | 64.0 |
| 19065 | Fayette | 8.3 | 6.2 | 29.1 | 53.9 | 38.6 | 56.2 |
| 19067 | Floyd | 7.7 | 6.5 | 28.6 | 59.0 | 37.5 | 51.8 |
| 19069 | Franklin | 6.7 | 5.4 | 36.5 | 59.1 | 38.9 | 54.3 |
| 19071 | Fremont | 7.1 | 4.5 | 30.0 | 39.6 | 26.8 | 62.3 |
| 19073 | Greene | 8.1 | 7.4 | 29.2 | 50.3 | 32.9 | 60.8 |
| 19075 | Grundy | 7.2 | 5.4 | 31.2 | 57.8 | 35.7 | 56.3 |
| 19077 | Guthrie | 12.3 | 5.7 | 35.0 | 52.5 | 37.6 | 53.3 |
| 19079 | Hamilton | 8.8 | 4.9 | 28.9 | 56.0 | 35.9 | 56.6 |
| 19081 | Hancock | 8.0 | 7.1 | 29.5 | 51.9 | 29.2 | 65.8 |
| 19083 | Hardin | 8.3 | 9.5 | 28.4 | 59.8 | 40.9 | 54.1 |
| 19085 | Harrison | 8.2 | 5.9 | 26.1 | 51.3 | 35.5 | 57.4 |
| 19087 | Henry | 10.3 | 6.5 | 34.7 | 59.1 | 36.9 | 47.5 |
| 19089 | Howard | 10.2 | 6.0 | 27.4 | 60.9 | 32.8 | 51.4 |
| 19091 | Humboldt | 7.8 | 5.9 | 24.4 | 64.5 | 43.4 | 52.4 |
| 19093 | Ida | 6.4 | 8.8 | 24.1 | 58.9 | 41.5 | 55.4 |
| 19095 | Iowa | 8.9 | 7.6 | 30.1 | 61.7 | 46.6 | 48.4 |
| 19097 | Jackson | 6.9 | 6.1 | 27.5 | 65.7 | 46.1 | 47.4 |
| 19099 | Jasper | 6.6 | 6.9 | 29.5 | 55.0 | 41.3 | 52.8 |
| 19101 | Jefferson | 11.1 | 3.9 | 34.3 | 61.6 | 41.2 | 46.3 |
| 19103 | Johnson | 11.4 | 4.7 | 32.0 | 60.9 | 37.6 | 50.2 |
| 19105 | Jones | 7.4 | 7.9 | 28.5 | 61.5 | 42.7 | 53.3 |
| 19107 | Keokuk | 9.3 | 9.6 | 30.2 | 58.2 | 40.4 | 47.5 |
| 19109 | Kossuth | 5.2 | 7.5 | 33.1 | 48.2 | 25.9 | 67.4 |
| 19111 | Lee | 9.7 | 6.3 | 29.3 | 62.1 | 42.3 | 42.6 |
| 19113 | Linn | 9.1 | 5.1 | 31.2 | 50.9 | 33.1 | 58.6 |
| 19115 | Louisa | 11.6 | 6.2 | 35.8 | 51.5 | 34.2 | 43.0 |
| 19117 | Lucas | 14.5 | 6.2 | 34.1 | 65.6 | 45.8 | 37.7 |
| 19119 | Lyon | 2.9 | 12.8 | 18.2 | 53.4 | 37.7 | 62.6 |
| 19121 | Madison | 9.3 | 3.9 | 28.7 | 62.4 | 46.0 | 40.9 |
| 19123 | Mahaska | 7.8 | 6.9 | 36.7 | 54.3 | 36.2 | 48.7 |
| 19125 | Marion | 10.1 | 6.5 | 29.1 | 69.5 | 53.8 | 39.9 |
| 19127 | Marshall | 9.1 | 7.6 | 31.2 | 58.7 | 36.5 | 60.1 |
| 19129 | Mills | 10.6 | 5.0 | 29.0 | 50.0 | 30.8 | 61.4 |
| 19131 | Mitchell | 5.8 | 11.0 | 24.6 | 53.7 | 29.0 | 65.7 |
| 19133 | Monona | 5.0 | 6.1 | 26.0 | 55.0 | 36.8 | 65.8 |
| 19135 | Monroe | 10.0 | 7.1 | 37.5 | 68.2 | 49.2 | 34.8 |
| 19137 | Montgomery | 8.2 | 7.0 | 33.1 | 50.5 | 29.9 | 62.3 |
| 19139 | Muscatine | 10.2 | 4.3 | 37.0 | 52.2 | 35.0 | 51.4 |
| 19141 | O Brien | 3.8 | 7.4 | 25.1 | 55.8 | 35.7 | 61.3 |
| 19143 | Osceola | 6.1 | 9.0 | 23.1 | 49.0 | 27.4 | 71.4 |
| 19145 | Page | 7.2 | 7.4 | 34.2 | 50.5 | 35.6 | 58.9 |
| 19147 | Palo Alto | 9.4 | 6.5 | 35.2 | 55.7 | 31.1 | 54.6 |
| 19149 | Plymouth | 4.2 | 8.4 | 25.3 | 54.8 | 32.1 | 67.8 |
| 19151 | Pocahontas | 5.9 | 6.1 | 34.5 | 46.9 | 27.2 | 72.0 |
| 19153 | Polk | 15.1 | 4.4 | 34.2 | 52.5 | 34.9 | 51.5 |
| 19155 | Pottawattamie | 7.3 | 4.8 | 33.3 | 55.8 | 32.7 | 66.2 |
| 19157 | Poweshiek | 7.6 | 7.2 | 35.6 | 57.3 | 40.8 | 55.4 |
| 19159 | Ringgold | 10.1 | 8.6 | 29.3 | 68.4 | 47.0 | 46.2 |
| 19161 | Sac | 6.3 | 6.5 | 27.2 | 57.1 | 38.8 | 53.9 |
| 19163 | Scott | 9.9 | 5.5 | 31.0 | 55.1 | 36.9 | 55.3 |
| 19165 | Shelby | 5.8 | 8.1 | 26.7 | 60.0 | 36.6 | 65.0 |
| 19167 | Sioux | 3.6 | 9.9 | 20.5 | 61.5 | 35.3 | 61.0 |
| 19169 | Story | 9.7 | 7.0 | 27.1 | 60.6 | 42.3 | 49.1 |
| 19171 | Tama | 8.3 | 6.0 | 33.4 | 57.3 | 37.3 | 62.4 |
| 19173 | Taylor | 11.3 | 9.7 | 33.3 | 60.3 | 36.5 | 44.4 |
| 19175 | Union | 10.5 | 8.2 | 32.4 | 67.3 | 46.9 | 44.3 |
| 19177 | Van Buren | 10.5 | 6.8 | 33.5 | 66.4 | 41.7 | 48.2 |
| 19179 | Wapello | 13.2 | 4.0 | 36.5 | 57.8 | 44.9 | 45.0 |
| 19181 | Warren | 9.9 | 4.0 | 34.3 | 62.9 | 41.1 | 37.3 |
| 19183 | Washington | 7.0 | 4.8 | 27.7 | 58.3 | 41.1 | 53.8 |
| 19185 | Wayne | 8.8 | 9.0 | 31.4 | 67.7 | 43.3 | 43.0 |
| 19187 | Webster | 8.8 | 4.8 | 36.1 | 50.3 | 28.0 | 64.2 |
| 19189 | Winnebago | 6.7 | 5.6 | 24.8 | 58.1 | 41.9 | 52.5 |
| 19191 | Winneshiek | 8.7 | 5.3 | 23.5 | 61.0 | 44.4 | 49.1 |
| 19193 | Woodbury | 8.0 | 6.2 | 27.3 | 54.3 | 37.0 | 58.6 |
| 19195 | Worth | 7.8 | 6.3 | 25.5 | 54.8 | 33.4 | 54.5 |
| 19197 | Wright | 7.5 | 5.3 | 37.9 | 47.1 | 24.4 | 61.3 |
Notes:
- A farm is defined as any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year. Beginning in 1997, operations receiving $1,000 or more in Federal government payments were counted as farms, even if they had no sales reported in the census year.
- The principal farm operator is the person primarily responsible for the on-site, day-to-day operation of the farm or ranch business. This person may be a hired manager or business manager.
- The 2002 Census of Agriculture introduced a procedural change in the method for counting farms. As a result, data for 2002 and beyond are not directly comparable with data collected in earlier census years.
- Last update: May, 2014