Sorenson township, Towner County, North Dakota (ND) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 581 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Sorenson township: | 580.8% |
| Whole state: | 1.9% |
66% of Sorenson township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 27% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 35% lived in North Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1855
- Northeast: 17
- Midwest: 1061
- South: 281
- West: 89
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $139,300
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 0.0%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 2,124
- One, attached: 2
- Two: 33
- 3 or 4: 35
- 5 to 9: 10
- Mobile homes: 182
Median worth of mobile homes: $52,300
Housing units in Sorenson township with a mortgage: 476 (6 second mortgage, 50 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 354
- Construction (14%)
- Metal and metal products (12%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (5%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Transportation equipment (10%)
- Health care (8%)
- Construction (7%)
- Finance and insurance (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (8%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (6%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (3%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (9%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Sorenson township:
- German (25.6%)
- Irish (13.7%)
- English (8.0%)
- United States or American (6.4%)
- Dutch (6.3%)
- Polish (5.4%)
- French (except Basque) (3.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (98%)
- Poland (2%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,176 (82%)
- Carpooled: 126 (9%)
- Walked: 37 (3%)
- Other means: 1 (0%)
- Worked at home: 95 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (43%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (25%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (2%)
- Other fuel (1%)
90.8% of residents of Sorenson township speak English at home.
8.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 17% don't speak English at all).
1.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (76% speak English very well, 24% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 3,330- In family households: 2,935 (801 male householders, 158 female householders)
945 spouses, 850 children (791 natural, 38 adopted, 21 stepchildren), 45 grandchildren, 24 brothers or sisters, 9 parents, 37 other relatives, 66 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 395 (203 male householders (162 living alone)), 155 female householders (147 living alone)), 37 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 153 (26 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 477 2-persons, 154 3-persons, 204 4-persons, 72 5-persons, 38 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 309 1-person, 49 2-persons,
6 married couples with children.
0 single-parent households (0 men, 0 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 54
| Here: | 12.6% |
| North Dakota: | 7.1% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| North Dakota: | 6.0% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 10
| Here: | 8.0% |
| North Dakota: | 10.5% |