Mason township, Murray County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Mason township: | 1.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
73% of Mason township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 224
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 50
- South: 0
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 180
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $162,500
Housing units in Mason township with a mortgage: 21 (2 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 30
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (35%)
- Construction (23%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Gasoline stations (4%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Social assistance (17%)
- Educational services (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Personal and laundry services (10%)
- Health care (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (22%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (12%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Engineers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Personal appearance workers (10%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (10%)
- Accountants and auditors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (8%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mason township:
- German (35.7%)
- Norwegian (15.5%)
- Swedish (11.5%)
- Dutch (10.7%)
- United States or American (7.9%)
- Italian (4.4%)
- English (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Netherlands (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 83 (63%)
- Carpooled: 9 (7%)
- Walked: 7 (5%)
- Worked at home: 33 (25%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (68%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (27%)
- Electricity (6%)
97.9% of residents of Mason township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 291- In family households: 270 (76 male householders, 10 female householders)
94 spouses, 88 children (81 natural, 4 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 21 (13 male householders (11 living alone)), 6 female householders (6 living alone)), 2 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 48 2-persons, 13 3-persons, 14 4-persons, 7 5-persons, 4 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 17 1-person, 2 2-persons,
58 married couples with children.
9 single-parent households (5 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 5
| Here: | 8.5% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 1
| Here: | 5.6% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |