Cotton township, St. Louis County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Cotton township: | 1.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
77% of Cotton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 52% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 86% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 453
- Northeast: 13
- Midwest: 41
- South: 11
- West: 10
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $67,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
11 people in nursing homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 323
- One, attached: 4
- Two: 1
- Mobile homes: 32
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $51,700
Housing units in Cotton township with a mortgage: 27 (0 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 40
- Transportation equipment (15%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Wood products (5%)
- Construction (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Transportation equipment (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (9%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Metal and metal products (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (15%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (9%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Cotton township:
- Swedish (22.7%)
- Norwegian (18.7%)
- German (13.9%)
- Finnish (8.9%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- English (5.0%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (38%)
- Italy (38%)
- Austria (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 162 (70%)
- Carpooled: 53 (23%)
- Worked at home: 18 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (38%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (33%)
- Wood (15%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Other fuel (1%)
11 people in nursing homes
96.9% of residents of Cotton township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
1.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
1.2% of residents speak other language at home (50% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 525- In family households: 470 (130 male householders, 5 female householders)
127 spouses, 171 children (166 natural, 2 adopted, 3 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 1 parents, 6 other relatives, 15 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 55 (16 male householders (13 living alone)), 28 female householders (24 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 11 (all institutionalized)
Size of family households: 55 2-persons, 28 3-persons, 25 4-persons, 15 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 4 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 37 1-person, 5 2-persons, 2 6-persons,
88 married couples with children.
10 single-parent households (6 men, 4 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 11
| Here: | 12.6% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |