Forest township, Rice County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (33% naturalized citizens)
Forest township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of Forest township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 54% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1016
- Northeast: 7
- Midwest: 36
- South: 40
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $137,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 326
- One, attached: 2
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 112
Median worth of mobile homes: $43,300
Housing units in Forest township with a mortgage: 122 (8 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 41
- Public administration (13%)
- Construction (9%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Health care (3%)
- Finance and insurance (15%)
- Health care (13%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Computer specialists (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (13%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Business operations specialists (6%)
- Cashiers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Forest township:
- German (33.2%)
- United States or American (14.6%)
- Polish (7.3%)
- Irish (7.2%)
- English (6.7%)
- French Canadian (3.5%)
- French (except Basque) (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 460 (83%)
- Carpooled: 66 (12%)
- Walked: 6 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 19 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (76%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Wood (6%)
- Electricity (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
97.7% of residents of Forest township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (92% speak English very well, 8% speak English not well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,111- In family households: 1,000 (236 male householders, 71 female householders)
242 spouses, 377 children (330 natural, 11 adopted, 36 stepchildren), 16 grandchildren, 5 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 6 other relatives, 46 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 111 (48 male householders (40 living alone)), 48 female householders (44 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 7 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 119 2-persons, 74 3-persons, 61 4-persons, 36 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 84 1-person, 10 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
274 married couples with children.
21 single-parent households (16 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
Here: | 7.1% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 6.0% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 7
Here: | 15.9% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |