Ross township, Mountrail County, North Dakota (ND) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 41 (94% naturalized citizens)
Ross township: | 41.0% |
Whole state: | 1.9% |
82% of Ross township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 28% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 21% lived in North Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 518
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 776
- South: 60
- West: 4
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 525
- One, attached: 5
- Two: 3
- Mobile homes: 1
Housing units in Ross township with a mortgage: 214 (16 second mortgage, 55 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 130
- Construction (15%)
- Transportation equipment (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Transportation equipment (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Personal and laundry services (3%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Registered nurses (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ross township:
- German (49.4%)
- English (9.4%)
- United States or American (8.6%)
- Irish (5.9%)
- Polish (3.3%)
- Belgian (2.6%)
- Czech (2.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (38%)
- Canada (25%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (19%)
- Netherlands (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 592 (86%)
- Carpooled: 57 (8%)
- Walked: 2 (0%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 39 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (59%)
- Utility gas (25%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Wood (3%)
94.4% of residents of Ross township speak English at home.
2.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (58% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 23% speak English not well).
3.7% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 23% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,394- In family households: 1,272 (341 male householders, 44 female householders)
344 spouses, 486 children (448 natural, 10 adopted, 28 stepchildren), 13 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 13 parents, 10 other relatives, 18 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 122 (38 male householders (30 living alone)), 68 female householders (68 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 8 (0 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 145 2-persons, 90 3-persons, 86 4-persons, 43 5-persons, 14 6-persons, 7 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 98 1-person, 2 2-persons, 6 3-persons,
9 married couples with children.
1 single-parent households (1 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 19
Here: | 10.1% |
North Dakota: | 7.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 15
Here: | 12.7% |
North Dakota: | 6.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
Here: | 21.1% |
North Dakota: | 10.5% |