Valley township, Douglas County, South Dakota (SD) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2,484 (58% naturalized citizens)
Valley township: | 2484.0% |
Whole state: | 1.8% |
67% of Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 48% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 59% lived in South Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 12752
- Northeast: 4613
- Midwest: 452
- South: 973
- West: 227
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $225,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 6,426
- One, attached: 314
- Two: 424
- 3 or 4: 255
- 5 to 9: 178
- 10 to 19: 330
- 20 to 49: 133
- 50 or more: 413
- Mobile homes: 6
Median worth of mobile homes: $225,000
Housing units in Valley township with a mortgage: 4,498 (440 second mortgage, 843 home equity loan, 7 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,745
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (35%)
- Transportation equipment (13%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (10%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Health care (47%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Food (7%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (23%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (13%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (10%)
- Religious workers (6%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (13%)
- Farmers and farm managers (10%)
- Other food preparation and serving workers including supervisors (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (10%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Therapists (7%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Valley township:
- Italian (20.1%)
- Irish (13.8%)
- German (8.0%)
- Polish (6.8%)
- Russian (4.2%)
- English (4.0%)
- United States or American (3.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- India (12%)
- Philippines (8%)
- Italy (7%)
- Trinidad and Tobago (7%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Cuba (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 8,551 (76%)
- Carpooled: 798 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 325 (3%)
- Subway or elevated: 51 (0%)
- Railroad: 975 (9%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 17 (0%)
- Bicycle: 15 (0%)
- Walked: 65 (1%)
- Other means: 43 (0%)
- Worked at home: 471 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (77%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (16%)
- Electricity (5%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
81.9% of residents of Valley township speak English at home.
3.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (73% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 11% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
8.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (78% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 5% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).
4.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (59% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 11% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other language at home (82% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 5% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 22,594- In family households: 20,086 (5,146 male householders, 1,131 female householders)
5,441 spouses, 7,246 children (6,932 natural, 179 adopted, 135 stepchildren), 177 grandchildren, 179 brothers or sisters, 197 parents, 339 other relatives, 230 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,508 (804 male householders (659 living alone)), 1,257 female householders (1,071 living alone)), 447 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 138 (104 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 2,307 2-persons, 1,559 3-persons, 1,602 4-persons, 582 5-persons, 151 6-persons, 76 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,730 1-person, 277 2-persons, 38 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 7 6-persons, 6 7-or-more-persons,
54 married couples with children.
0 single-parent households (0 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 365
Here: | 14.3% |
South Dakota: | 8.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 182
Here: | 17.5% |
South Dakota: | 5.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 216
Here: | 33.3% |
South Dakota: | 17.8% |