Scambler township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Scambler township: | 0.4% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Scambler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 304
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 180
- South: 4
- West: 9
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $187,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
3 people in homes for the mentally ill
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 447
- One, attached: 2
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 80
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 33
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,200
Housing units in Scambler township with a mortgage: 69 (2 second mortgage, 9 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 43
- Construction (13%)
- Food (13%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Health care (26%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Food (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Construction laborers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (11%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (8%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Scambler township:
- Norwegian (49.0%)
- German (27.1%)
- English (6.0%)
- Swedish (3.2%)
- Scandinavian (2.3%)
- United States or American (2.1%)
- Danish (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 202 (83%)
- Carpooled: 16 (7%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 24 (10%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (20%)
- Electricity (18%)
- Wood (7%)
- Utility gas (3%)
3 people in homes for the mentally ill
96.5% of residents of Scambler township speak English at home.
0.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
3.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 501- In family households: 439 (128 male householders, 22 female householders)
141 spouses, 125 children (111 natural, 5 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 7 other relatives, 12 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 62 (30 male householders (25 living alone)), 26 female householders (24 living alone)), 6 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 3 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 82 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 28 4-persons, 11 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 49 1-person, 7 2-persons,
83 married couples with children.
26 single-parent households (11 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 22.2% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |