Meckling township, Clay County, South Dakota (SD) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Meckling township: | 1.3% |
| Whole state: | 1.8% |
64% of Meckling township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 49% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in South Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 173
- Northeast: 0
- Midwest: 18
- South: 3
- West: 30
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $12,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.3%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 93
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 5
Median worth of mobile homes: $32,500
Housing units in Meckling township with a mortgage: 28 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 17
- Machinery (14%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (10%)
- Truck transportation (10%)
- Construction (9%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Health care (33%)
- Personal and laundry services (16%)
- Data processing, libraries, and other information services (11%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (11%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (10%)
- Educational services (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (3%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Material moving workers except supervisors and laborers and material movers, hand (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Business operations specialists (9%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (9%)
- Carpenters (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (20%)
- Personal appearance workers (16%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Registered nurses (10%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Accountants and auditors (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Meckling township:
- Dutch (23.2%)
- Norwegian (20.1%)
- German (19.6%)
- Irish (9.8%)
- Latvian (4.1%)
- French (except Basque) (3.6%)
- Danish (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Eastern Europe (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 79 (68%)
- Carpooled: 27 (23%)
- Walked: 5 (4%)
- Worked at home: 6 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (37%)
- Utility gas (36%)
- Electricity (14%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (3%)
95.9% of residents of Meckling township speak English at home.
2.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 227- In family households: 188 (51 male householders, 22 female householders)
50 spouses, 59 children (59 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 2 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 39 (19 male householders (12 living alone)), 12 female householders (10 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 44 2-persons, 21 3-persons, 3 4-persons, 3 5-persons, 2 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 22 1-person, 3 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
48 married couples with children.
8 single-parent households (1 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| South Dakota: | 8.0% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| South Dakota: | 5.6% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| South Dakota: | 17.8% |