Owatonna township, Steele County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (65% naturalized citizens)
| Owatonna township: | 3.0% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Owatonna township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 69% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 60% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 627
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 81
- South: 17
- West: 11
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.9%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.3% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 260
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 4
- 3 or 4: 4
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $25,600
Housing units in Owatonna township with a mortgage: 82 (8 second mortgage, 17 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 38
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Construction (11%)
- Metal and metal products (8%)
- Machinery (6%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Educational services (15%)
- Finance and insurance (11%)
- Health care (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (7%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Customer service representatives (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Owatonna township:
- German (38.7%)
- Czech (16.8%)
- Norwegian (15.0%)
- Irish (3.9%)
- Danish (3.8%)
- United States or American (3.8%)
- Swedish (3.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Korea (43%)
- Laos (35%)
- United Kingdom (9%)
- Other Northern Europe (9%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 314 (79%)
- Carpooled: 33 (8%)
- Walked: 16 (4%)
- Worked at home: 35 (9%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (34%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (4%)
- Wood (4%)
- Solar energy (1%)
94.3% of residents of Owatonna township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
2.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (95% speak English very well, 5% speak English well).
1.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (43% speak English very well, 50% speak English well, 7% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 766- In family households: 683 (200 male householders, 19 female householders)
195 spouses, 249 children (231 natural, 14 adopted, 4 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 83 (44 male householders (34 living alone)), 25 female householders (19 living alone)), 14 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 99 2-persons, 42 3-persons, 38 4-persons, 24 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 53 1-person, 13 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
182 married couples with children.
27 single-parent households (15 men, 12 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 26
| Here: | 22.0% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 3.3% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 2
| Here: | 18.2% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |