Thomson township, Carlton County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (88% naturalized citizens)
| Thomson township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
78% of Thomson 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, 88% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3535
- Northeast: 90
- Midwest: 530
- South: 61
- West: 89
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,420
- Two: 5
- 3 or 4: 24
- 5 to 9: 5
- 20 to 49: 5
- Mobile homes: 101
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,100
Housing units in Thomson township with a mortgage: 675 (54 second mortgage, 152 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 198
- Construction (12%)
- Paper (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Educational services (20%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Registered nurses (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Thomson township:
- Finnish (26.0%)
- German (15.9%)
- Norwegian (13.5%)
- Swedish (11.1%)
- Irish (6.5%)
- Polish (4.4%)
- United States or American (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (38%)
- Canada (34%)
- Cuba (16%)
- Germany (12%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,997 (86%)
- Carpooled: 205 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 5 (0%)
- Bicycle: 8 (0%)
- Walked: 21 (1%)
- Other means: 8 (0%)
- Worked at home: 81 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (47%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (15%)
- Wood (9%)
- Other fuel (1%)
6 people in homes for the mentally retarded
95.3% of residents of Thomson township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (51% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 36% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
2.4% of residents speak other language at home (79% speak English very well, 21% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,360- In family households: 4,019 (1,075 male householders, 157 female householders)
1,120 spouses, 1,566 children (1,441 natural, 59 adopted, 66 stepchildren), 50 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 11 parents, 2 other relatives, 38 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 341 (156 male householders (128 living alone)), 124 female householders (103 living alone)), 61 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 6 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 462 2-persons, 268 3-persons, 318 4-persons, 145 5-persons, 32 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 231 1-person, 43 2-persons, 6 4-persons,
1,090 married couples with children.
137 single-parent households (37 men, 100 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 42
| Here: | 6.5% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
| Here: | 1.5% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
| Here: | 10.1% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |