Bad Nation township, Mellette County, South Dakota (SD) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 677 (48% naturalized citizens)
Bad Nation township: | 677.1% |
Whole state: | 1.8% |
60% of Bad Nation township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in South Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 8244
- Northeast: 155
- Midwest: 1118
- South: 608
- West: 282
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $70,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 8.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,879
- One, attached: 18
- Two: 103
- 3 or 4: 107
- 5 to 9: 85
- 10 to 19: 46
- 20 to 49: 49
- 50 or more: 3
- Mobile homes: 648
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 2
Median worth of mobile homes: $30,100
Housing units in Bad Nation township with a mortgage: 1,680 (151 second mortgage, 308 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 534
- Construction (12%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Chemicals (5%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (3%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Bad Nation township:
- German (21.4%)
- United States or American (11.9%)
- Irish (10.2%)
- English (9.7%)
- Dutch (9.6%)
- Polish (6.9%)
- French (except Basque) (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (46%)
- Canada (7%)
- India (7%)
- Hungary (6%)
- United Kingdom (5%)
- Romania (4%)
- Netherlands (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,538 (86%)
- Carpooled: 450 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 16 (0%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 2 (0%)
- Bicycle: 10 (0%)
- Walked: 111 (2%)
- Other means: 28 (1%)
- Worked at home: 106 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (70%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (13%)
- Electricity (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (1%)
93.7% of residents of Bad Nation township speak English at home.
4.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (55% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 17% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (93% speak English very well, 7% speak English well).
0.3% of residents speak other language at home (16% speak English very well, 84% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 10,364- In family households: 9,348 (2,358 male householders, 569 female householders)
2,340 spouses, 3,609 children (3,159 natural, 132 adopted, 318 stepchildren), 124 grandchildren, 31 brothers or sisters, 42 parents, 91 other relatives, 184 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,016 (425 male householders (302 living alone)), 378 female householders (349 living alone)), 213 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 291 (125 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,084 2-persons, 707 3-persons, 698 4-persons, 310 5-persons, 90 6-persons, 38 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 651 1-person, 120 2-persons, 29 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
11 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): 118
Here: | 7.9% |
South Dakota: | 8.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
Here: | 3.9% |
South Dakota: | 5.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 27
Here: | 6.3% |
South Dakota: | 17.8% |