Waterford township, Ward County, North Dakota (ND) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (36% naturalized citizens)
| Waterford township: | 3.2% |
| Whole state: | 1.9% |
14% of Waterford township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 6% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 6% lived in North Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 440
- Northeast: 467
- Midwest: 762
- South: 834
- West: 648
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $55,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
706 people in military barracks, etc.
27 people in military transient quarters for temporary residents
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 50
- One, attached: 416
- Two: 176
- 3 or 4: 353
- 5 to 9: 8
- 10 to 19: 5
- 20 to 49: 9
- Mobile homes: 29
Housing units in Waterford township with a mortgage: 0 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 21
- Public administration (29%)
- Accommodation and food services (19%)
- Construction (9%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Other direct selling establishments (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Warehousing and storage (4%)
- Health care (21%)
- Social assistance (15%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (9%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Fire fighting and prevention workers including supervisors (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (6%)
- Business operations specialists (5%)
- Child care workers (13%)
- Cashiers (11%)
- Customer service representatives (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (6%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Waterford township:
- German (22.7%)
- Irish (9.7%)
- Norwegian (6.5%)
- Italian (4.9%)
- English (4.5%)
- United States or American (4.0%)
- French (except Basque) (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (19%)
- United Kingdom (17%)
- Other Caribbean (13%)
- Panama (9%)
- Turkey (7%)
- Peru (7%)
- Vietnam (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,494 (71%)
- Carpooled: 468 (22%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (1%)
- Walked: 94 (4%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 29 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (5%)
- Other fuel (1%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (1%)
706 people in military barracks, etc.
27 people in military transient quarters for temporary residents
90.6% of residents of Waterford township speak English at home.
5.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (94% speak English very well, 2% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (63% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,726- In family households: 2,560 (716 male householders, 128 female householders)
783 spouses, 920 children (841 natural, 24 adopted, 55 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 166 (81 male householders (57 living alone)), 50 female householders (34 living alone)), 35 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 730 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 295 2-persons, 273 3-persons, 192 4-persons, 61 5-persons, 23 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 91 1-person, 40 2-persons,
957 married couples with children.
70 single-parent households (42 men, 28 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 43
| Here: | 11.9% |
| North Dakota: | 7.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 7
| Here: | 8.3% |
| North Dakota: | 6.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 4.8% |
| North Dakota: | 10.5% |