Mekinock township, Grand Forks County, North Dakota (ND) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 5 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Mekinock township: | 4.9% |
| Whole state: | 1.9% |
11% of Mekinock township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 20% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 5% lived in North Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 618
- Northeast: 435
- Midwest: 1117
- South: 924
- West: 818
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $61,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.7%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
476 people in military barracks, etc.
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 85
- One, attached: 944
- Two: 64
- 3 or 4: 239
- 5 to 9: 84
- 10 to 19: 7
- 20 to 49: 20
- 50 or more: 6
- Mobile homes: 26
Median worth of mobile homes: $28,000
Housing units in Mekinock township with a mortgage: 28 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 7
- Public administration (32%)
- Health care (14%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Social assistance (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (11%)
- Health care (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (9%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (7%)
- Health technologists and technicians (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (5%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Child care workers (10%)
- Cashiers (9%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (9%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Mekinock township:
- German (22.8%)
- Irish (7.5%)
- United States or American (6.8%)
- English (6.4%)
- Norwegian (5.1%)
- Italian (4.8%)
- Polish (2.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (20%)
- Philippines (16%)
- Italy (11%)
- Ghana (11%)
- Germany (7%)
- Mexico (7%)
- Other Caribbean (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,864 (81%)
- Carpooled: 298 (13%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 15 (1%)
- Motorcycle: 4 (0%)
- Walked: 53 (2%)
- Other means: 32 (1%)
- Worked at home: 35 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (65%)
- Electricity (31%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (2%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
- No fuel used (1%)
476 people in military barracks, etc.
90.2% of residents of Mekinock township speak English at home.
3.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (46% speak English very well, 21% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
2.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
2.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (64% speak English very well, 36% speak English well).
0.6% of residents speak other language at home (54% speak English well, 46% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,030- In family households: 3,946 (1,060 male householders, 121 female householders)
1,052 spouses, 1,653 children (1,556 natural, 13 adopted, 84 stepchildren), 9 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 12 other relatives, 21 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 84 (60 male householders (53 living alone)), 12 female householders (6 living alone)), 12 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 478 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 299 2-persons, 342 3-persons, 410 4-persons, 100 5-persons, 21 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 59 1-person, 13 2-persons,
1,455 married couples with children.
145 single-parent households (71 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 50
| Here: | 7.5% |
| North Dakota: | 7.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
| Here: | 9.5% |
| North Dakota: | 6.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 58
| Here: | 10.5% |
| North Dakota: | 10.5% |