Silver Creek township, Lake County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (88% naturalized citizens)
| Silver Creek township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
75% of Silver Creek 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, 67% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 906
- Northeast: 8
- Midwest: 169
- South: 14
- West: 27
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $85,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 829
- One, attached: 8
- 3 or 4: 4
- 5 to 9: 29
- 10 to 19: 32
- 20 to 49: 2
- 50 or more: 2
- Mobile homes: 84
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 9
Median worth of mobile homes: $44,100
Housing units in Silver Creek township with a mortgage: 96 (12 second mortgage, 16 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 65
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Construction (6%)
- Wood products (6%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (5%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Accommodation and food services (13%)
- Finance and insurance (10%)
- Social assistance (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Public administration (3%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Fishing and hunting, and forest and logging workers (5%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Silver Creek township:
- German (22.9%)
- Swedish (20.8%)
- Norwegian (19.1%)
- Irish (6.3%)
- Finnish (5.5%)
- United States or American (4.4%)
- English (4.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (63%)
- Canada (25%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 500 (81%)
- Carpooled: 85 (14%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 8 (1%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 21 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (43%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (26%)
- Wood (14%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Utility gas (3%)
96.5% of residents of Silver Creek township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (60% speak English very well, 40% speak English not well).
3.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (88% speak English very well, 6% speak English well, 6% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,135- In family households: 1,021 (314 male householders, 46 female householders)
333 spouses, 294 children (271 natural, 1 adopted, 22 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 14 other relatives, 6 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 114 (53 male householders (43 living alone)), 46 female householders (42 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 214 2-persons, 57 3-persons, 60 4-persons, 23 5-persons, 6 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 85 1-person, 13 2-persons, 1 3-persons,
208 married couples with children.
37 single-parent households (22 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 10
| Here: | 12.2% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 3
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
| Here: | 11.8% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |