Dassel township, Meeker County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (71% naturalized citizens)
Dassel township: | 0.5% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
57% of Dassel township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 28% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 93% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1169
- Northeast: 15
- Midwest: 135
- South: 14
- West: 51
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 521
- Mobile homes: 39
Median worth of mobile homes: $36,400
Housing units in Dassel township with a mortgage: 206 (31 second mortgage, 35 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 59
- Construction (16%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (9%)
- Computer and electronic products (8%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Educational services (24%)
- Health care (16%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Computer specialists (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Dassel township:
- German (31.7%)
- Swedish (21.1%)
- Finnish (18.2%)
- Norwegian (7.8%)
- Irish (2.6%)
- Polish (2.5%)
- United States or American (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Honduras (43%)
- Other Eastern Europe (29%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 609 (78%)
- Carpooled: 96 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (48%)
- Electricity (26%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (18%)
- Utility gas (4%)
- Wood (3%)
98.2% of residents of Dassel township speak English at home.
0.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
0.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 25% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,398- In family households: 1,310 (379 male householders, 24 female householders)
377 spouses, 489 children (451 natural, 10 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 10 parents, 10 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 88 (40 male householders (29 living alone)), 31 female householders (29 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 166 2-persons, 77 3-persons, 80 4-persons, 44 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 22 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 58 1-person, 12 2-persons, 1 4-persons,
379 married couples with children.
31 single-parent households (26 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
Here: | 1.5% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
Here: | 2.4% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
Here: | 16.1% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |