Grand Rapids township, Itasca County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (42% naturalized citizens)
| Grand Rapids township: | 1.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
54% of Grand Rapids township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 62% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 62% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 9314
- Northeast: 127
- Midwest: 1384
- South: 171
- West: 428
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
People in group quarters in Grand Rapids township, Minnesota:
- 251 people in nursing homes
- 89 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 42 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 23 people in other group homes
- 16 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 15 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 8 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,377
- One, attached: 86
- Two: 184
- 3 or 4: 168
- 5 to 9: 154
- 10 to 19: 198
- 20 to 49: 337
- 50 or more: 237
- Mobile homes: 381
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,400
Housing units in Grand Rapids township with a mortgage: 1,766 (161 second mortgage, 215 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 924
- Paper (12%)
- Construction (11%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Repair and maintenance (4%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Social assistance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Cashiers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Waiters and waitresses (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grand Rapids township:
- German (24.4%)
- Norwegian (13.1%)
- Irish (8.2%)
- Finnish (7.9%)
- Swedish (6.6%)
- English (5.2%)
- United States or American (5.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (41%)
- Germany (19%)
- Turkey (10%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (7%)
- Mexico (6%)
- Other Eastern Europe (4%)
- United Kingdom (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,159 (81%)
- Carpooled: 475 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 53 (1%)
- Bicycle: 18 (0%)
- Walked: 208 (4%)
- Other means: 25 (0%)
- Worked at home: 175 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (56%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (19%)
- Electricity (12%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Grand Rapids township, Minnesota:
- 251 people in nursing homes
- 89 people in local jails and other confinement facilities (including police lockups)
- 46 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 42 people in homes for the mentally retarded
- 23 people in other group homes
- 16 people in homes for the physically handicapped
- 15 people in homes for the mentally ill
- 8 people in homes for abused, dependent, and neglected children
- 8 people in short-term care, detention or diagnostic centers for delinquent children
- 8 people in homes or halfway houses for drug/alcohol abuse
- 6 people in other nonhousehold living situations
96.8% of residents of Grand Rapids township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (47% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 44% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (74% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 13% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (56% speak English very well, 44% speak English well).
0.9% of residents speak other language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 11,186- In family households: 9,077 (2,333 male householders, 764 female householders)
2,368 spouses, 3,131 children (2,903 natural, 36 adopted, 192 stepchildren), 66 grandchildren, 53 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 81 other relatives, 239 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,109 (674 male householders (531 living alone)), 1,127 female householders (1,045 living alone)), 308 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 516 (313 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,608 2-persons, 597 3-persons, 586 4-persons, 227 5-persons, 44 6-persons, 35 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,576 1-person, 158 2-persons, 43 3-persons, 24 4-persons,
1,833 married couples with children.
782 single-parent households (144 men, 638 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 104
| Here: | 8.2% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 38
| Here: | 5.1% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 1.7% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |