Lake Prairie township, Nicollet County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Lake Prairie township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Lake Prairie township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 69% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 570
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 49
- South: 19
- West: 8
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $275,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.9% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
14 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 226
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 2
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $62,500
Housing units in Lake Prairie township with a mortgage: 75 (9 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 35
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (25%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Food (9%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Construction (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Educational services (21%)
- Health care (19%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (18%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (12%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Lake Prairie township:
- German (38.2%)
- Norwegian (20.4%)
- Swedish (11.5%)
- Irish (7.8%)
- United States or American (5.6%)
- English (3.5%)
- Belgian (1.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 263 (70%)
- Carpooled: 66 (18%)
- Walked: 10 (3%)
- Worked at home: 35 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (68%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Wood (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
14 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
3 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
96.0% of residents of Lake Prairie township speak English at home.
1.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
2.6% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 643- In family households: 594 (170 male householders, 20 female householders)
173 spouses, 213 children (205 natural, 0 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 3 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 49 (19 male householders (19 living alone)), 20 female householders (12 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 17 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 83 2-persons, 36 3-persons, 37 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 11 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 31 1-person, 8 2-persons,
148 married couples with children.
18 single-parent households (10 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 21.3% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 6
| Here: | 11.3% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 23.1% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |