Le Ray township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (29% naturalized citizens)
| Le Ray township: | 4.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
49% of Le Ray township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 38% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1572
- Northeast: 92
- Midwest: 1016
- South: 525
- West: 438
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $50,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 3.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 748
- One, attached: 14
- Two: 18
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 5
- 10 to 19: 30
- 20 to 49: 7
- Mobile homes: 945
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,700
Housing units in Le Ray township with a mortgage: 292 (20 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 160
- Construction (19%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (14%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Food (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Printing and related support activities (14%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Le Ray township:
- United States or American (24.6%)
- German (20.1%)
- English (11.6%)
- Irish (10.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.9%)
- Scotch-Irish (3.4%)
- Italian (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (66%)
- Japan (14%)
- Canada (9%)
- United Kingdom (6%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,201 (73%)
- Carpooled: 306 (19%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 74 (5%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 49 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (51%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (42%)
- Wood (6%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.8% of residents of Le Ray township speak English at home.
1.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (36% speak English very well, 36% speak English well, 29% speak English not well).
0.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (78% speak English very well, 22% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,575- In family households: 3,041 (833 male householders, 200 female householders)
792 spouses, 996 children (859 natural, 35 adopted, 102 stepchildren), 40 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 46 other relatives, 100 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 534 (202 male householders (151 living alone)), 230 female householders (198 living alone)), 102 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 123 (21 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 503 2-persons, 238 3-persons, 162 4-persons, 83 5-persons, 36 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 349 1-person, 70 2-persons, 7 3-persons, 4 4-persons, 2 5-persons,
204 married couples with children.
22 single-parent households (13 men, 9 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 24
| Here: | 5.3% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
| Here: | 2.6% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 100
| Here: | 63.3% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |