Forest Lake township, Washington County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Forest Lake township: | 0.2% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
71% of Forest Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2694
- Northeast: 72
- Midwest: 96
- South: 193
- West: 35
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.4%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
5 people in other group homes
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 927
- One, attached: 8
- Two: 53
- 3 or 4: 36
- Mobile homes: 377
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,000
Housing units in Forest Lake township with a mortgage: 334 (41 second mortgage, 40 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 243
- Construction (15%)
- Machinery (10%)
- Truck transportation (8%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (6%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (16%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Food and beverage stores (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (3%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (3%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Forest Lake township:
- German (47.4%)
- United States or American (11.4%)
- Irish (6.9%)
- English (6.2%)
- Italian (3.7%)
- Dutch (3.2%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Argentina (38%)
- Germany (31%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (31%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,261 (85%)
- Carpooled: 151 (10%)
- Walked: 29 (2%)
- Other means: 13 (1%)
- Worked at home: 38 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (68%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Wood (7%)
- Coal or coke (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (4%)
- Other fuel (1%)
5 people in other group homes
97.0% of residents of Forest Lake township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (63% speak English very well, 13% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (40% speak English very well, 57% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,124- In family households: 2,768 (756 male householders, 137 female householders)
752 spouses, 976 children (894 natural, 40 adopted, 42 stepchildren), 46 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 20 parents, 24 other relatives, 51 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 356 (156 male householders (136 living alone)), 147 female householders (125 living alone)), 53 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 389 2-persons, 236 3-persons, 161 4-persons, 72 5-persons, 18 6-persons, 17 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 261 1-person, 33 2-persons, 6 3-persons, 3 4-persons,
1,844 married couples with children.
204 single-parent households (76 men, 128 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 1.9% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 32.1% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |