Grainfield township, Towner County, North Dakota (ND) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 11,460 (52% naturalized citizens)
| Grainfield township: | 11459.6% |
| Whole state: | 1.9% |
68% of Grainfield township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 44% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 85% lived in North Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 11175
- Northeast: 1817
- Midwest: 199
- South: 2145
- West: 78
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $79,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 4,289
- One, attached: 273
- Two: 1,667
- 3 or 4: 766
- 5 to 9: 152
- 10 to 19: 68
- 20 to 49: 102
- 50 or more: 61
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $162,500
Housing units in Grainfield township with a mortgage: 3,029 (339 second mortgage, 239 home equity loan, 25 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 955
- Construction (11%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Health care (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Health care (15%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Grainfield township:
- Portuguese (11.6%)
- Polish (4.7%)
- Italian (4.1%)
- Haitian (2.8%)
- United States or American (2.6%)
- Irish (2.5%)
- Brazilian (2.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Portugal (26%)
- Haiti (8%)
- Brazil (7%)
- Philippines (5%)
- Nigeria (4%)
- Colombia (4%)
- Cuba (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 7,316 (71%)
- Carpooled: 1,361 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 719 (7%)
- Streetcar or trolley car: 33 (0%)
- Subway or elevated: 18 (0%)
- Railroad: 313 (3%)
- Taxi: 19 (0%)
- Walked: 380 (4%)
- Other means: 15 (0%)
- Worked at home: 148 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (71%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
61.2% of residents of Grainfield township speak English at home.
13.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
20.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (56% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 15% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
2.2% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (72% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 2% speak English not well).
2.4% of residents speak other language at home (79% speak English very well, 14% speak English well, 3% speak English not well, 3% don't speak English at all).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 21,742- In family households: 19,792 (3,957 male householders, 1,618 female householders)
4,033 spouses, 7,507 children (7,102 natural, 118 adopted, 287 stepchildren), 810 grandchildren, 395 brothers or sisters, 290 parents, 708 other relatives, 474 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 1,950 (733 male householders (517 living alone)), 847 female householders (770 living alone)), 370 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 5 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,655 2-persons, 1,429 3-persons, 1,298 4-persons, 660 5-persons, 249 6-persons, 284 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,287 1-person, 250 2-persons, 31 3-persons, 12 4-persons,
9 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): 584
| Here: | 23.6% |
| North Dakota: | 7.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 326
| Here: | 22.0% |
| North Dakota: | 6.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 341
| Here: | 30.3% |
| North Dakota: | 10.5% |