La Crescent township, Houston County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (81% naturalized citizens)
La Crescent township: | 2.4% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of La Crescent township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 51% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 28% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 337
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 1082
- South: 29
- West: 36
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 507
- One, attached: 2
- Mobile homes: 23
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in La Crescent township with a mortgage: 263 (39 second mortgage, 69 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 110
- Construction (14%)
- Health care (9%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in La Crescent township:
- German (48.0%)
- Norwegian (18.3%)
- Irish (9.0%)
- English (4.9%)
- United States or American (3.9%)
- Polish (2.4%)
- Swedish (2.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (28%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Laos (17%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (14%)
- Canada (11%)
- Mexico (8%)
- Netherlands (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 724 (86%)
- Carpooled: 55 (7%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 4 (0%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 56 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (59%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (20%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Wood (4%)
96.6% of residents of La Crescent township speak English at home.
1.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (87% speak English very well, 13% speak English well).
1.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
1.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (33% speak English very well, 67% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,535- In family households: 1,417 (384 male householders, 43 female householders)
399 spouses, 544 children (502 natural, 14 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 8 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 0 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 118 (63 male householders (57 living alone)), 39 female householders (32 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 166 2-persons, 73 3-persons, 118 4-persons, 57 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 89 1-person, 9 2-persons, 4 4-persons,
382 married couples with children.
26 single-parent households (4 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 61
Here: | 27.2% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 9
Here: | 7.6% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 1
Here: | 2.0% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |