Colgate township, Steele County, North Dakota (ND) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1,603 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Colgate township: | 1603.2% |
| Whole state: | 1.9% |
42% of Colgate township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 68% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in North Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 31034
- Northeast: 882
- Midwest: 1098
- South: 1971
- West: 733
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $186,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 9,116
- One, attached: 1,551
- Two: 181
- 3 or 4: 460
- 5 to 9: 572
- 10 to 19: 613
- 20 to 49: 125
- 50 or more: 182
- Mobile homes: 1,192
Median worth of mobile homes: $21,500
Housing units in Colgate township with a mortgage: 8,012 (522 second mortgage, 1,638 home equity loan, 36 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,210
- Transportation equipment (18%)
- Construction (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Engineers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (3%)
- Computer specialists (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (4%)
- Registered nurses (3%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Colgate township:
- German (19.3%)
- Polish (15.1%)
- Italian (13.1%)
- Irish (7.7%)
- United States or American (5.6%)
- English (5.4%)
- French (except Basque) (4.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (18%)
- Mexico (15%)
- Yugoslavia (8%)
- Germany (6%)
- Other Eastern Europe (5%)
- Italy (5%)
- Syria (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 16,891 (88%)
- Carpooled: 1,697 (9%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 34 (0%)
- Walked: 69 (0%)
- Other means: 41 (0%)
- Worked at home: 371 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (91%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
92.8% of residents of Colgate township speak English at home.
2.1% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 26% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
4.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (72% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 7% speak English not well, 1% don't speak English at all).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (58% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 19% speak English not well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (72% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 37,260- In family households: 33,302 (8,596 male householders, 1,638 female householders)
8,540 spouses, 12,999 children (11,742 natural, 331 adopted, 926 stepchildren), 270 grandchildren, 197 brothers or sisters, 157 parents, 314 other relatives, 591 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 3,958 (1,589 male householders (1,188 living alone)), 1,604 female householders (1,335 living alone)), 765 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 236 (162 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 3,422 2-persons, 2,517 3-persons, 2,746 4-persons, 1,138 5-persons, 335 6-persons, 76 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 2,523 1-person, 593 2-persons, 47 3-persons, 30 4-persons,
29 married couples with children.
2 single-parent households (2 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 379
| Here: | 7.6% |
| North Dakota: | 7.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 64
| Here: | 2.9% |
| North Dakota: | 6.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 259
| Here: | 12.4% |
| North Dakota: | 10.5% |