Erin township, Rice County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (57% naturalized citizens)
| Erin township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
72% of Erin township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 41% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 88% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 688
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 68
- South: 15
- West: 25
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $275,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 292
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 31
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 3
Median worth of mobile homes: $96,300
Housing units in Erin township with a mortgage: 65 (7 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 13
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Construction (15%)
- Machinery (13%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Food (6%)
- Machinery, equipment, and supplies merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (3%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (11%)
- Health care (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Top executives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Erin township:
- German (26.4%)
- Czech (20.6%)
- Czechoslovakian (9.6%)
- Swedish (8.0%)
- Irish (6.7%)
- Norwegian (5.4%)
- United States or American (5.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (57%)
- United Kingdom (43%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 337 (73%)
- Carpooled: 63 (14%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 53 (11%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (69%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (11%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Utility gas (3%)
93.7% of residents of Erin township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
5.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 807- In family households: 730 (212 male householders, 20 female householders)
200 spouses, 278 children (245 natural, 11 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 5 other relatives, 5 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 77 (48 male householders (41 living alone)), 12 female householders (8 living alone)), 17 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 98 2-persons, 47 3-persons, 49 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 9 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 49 1-person, 6 2-persons, 5 3-persons,
194 married couples with children.
21 single-parent households (13 men, 8 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
| Here: | 21.4% |
| 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: 11
| Here: | 45.8% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |