Vasa township, Goodhue County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (33% naturalized citizens)
| Vasa township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
82% of Vasa township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 67% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 70% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 697
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 115
- South: 17
- West: 5
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $112,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 260
- Two: 5
- Mobile homes: 35
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,500
Housing units in Vasa township with a mortgage: 58 (7 second mortgage, 10 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 30
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Construction (11%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Other transportation, and support activities, and couriers (4%)
- Food (3%)
- Machinery (3%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (6%)
- Leather and allied products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Personal and laundry services (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (12%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Air transportation workers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Vasa township:
- German (35.6%)
- Swedish (29.3%)
- Norwegian (14.7%)
- Irish (3.9%)
- English (2.3%)
- Dutch (1.9%)
- Scandinavian (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (33%)
- Ukraine (33%)
- Canada (33%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 346 (76%)
- Carpooled: 37 (8%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Worked at home: 65 (14%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (74%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (12%)
- Wood (9%)
- Electricity (4%)
- Utility gas (1%)
97.1% of residents of Vasa township speak English at home.
0.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (67% speak English very well, 33% speak English not well).
2.1% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (71% speak English very well, 29% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 842- In family households: 770 (215 male householders, 22 female householders)
191 spouses, 299 children (281 natural, 11 adopted, 7 stepchildren), 7 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 8 parents, 9 other relatives, 17 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 72 (34 male householders (25 living alone)), 25 female householders (20 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 88 2-persons, 44 3-persons, 62 4-persons, 31 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 45 1-person, 14 2-persons,
217 married couples with children.
38 single-parent households (23 men, 15 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 7.2% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
| Here: | 2.9% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 9
| Here: | 31.0% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |