Ramsey township, McCook County, South Dakota (SD) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (50% naturalized citizens)
Ramsey township: | 4.2% |
Whole state: | 1.8% |
78% of Ramsey township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 24% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 100% lived in South Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 349
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 52
- South: 6
- West: 3
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 2.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 156
- Two: 2
- 3 or 4: 2
- Mobile homes: 12
Median worth of mobile homes: $57,500
Housing units in Ramsey township with a mortgage: 42 (3 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 14
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (40%)
- Construction (13%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Computer and electronic products (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Educational services (29%)
- Health care (18%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (9%)
- Social assistance (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Textile mills and textile products (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (40%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (15%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (10%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (15%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (12%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (9%)
- Farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Accountants and auditors (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ramsey township:
- German (40.3%)
- Norwegian (29.2%)
- United States or American (6.5%)
- English (5.4%)
- Dutch (3.5%)
- Irish (2.7%)
- Haitian (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (50%)
- Other Northern Europe (25%)
- Netherlands (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 179 (73%)
- Carpooled: 21 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (1%)
- Walked: 10 (4%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 32 (13%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (68%)
- Utility gas (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- Wood (6%)
- Electricity (3%)
97.5% of residents of Ramsey township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 422- In family households: 385 (119 male householders, 21 female householders)
114 spouses, 121 children (107 natural, 9 adopted, 5 stepchildren), 5 grandchildren, 1 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 0 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 37 (18 male householders (14 living alone)), 8 female householders (5 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 73 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 9 5-persons, 4 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 19 1-person, 5 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
68 married couples with children.
10 single-parent households (3 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 3
Here: | 7.7% |
South Dakota: | 8.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
South Dakota: | 5.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
South Dakota: | 17.8% |