Wadena township, Wadena County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (57% naturalized citizens)
Wadena township: | 1.4% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Wadena township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 50% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 68% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 824
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 97
- South: 29
- West: 43
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.1%
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: 328
- Mobile homes: 58
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in Wadena township with a mortgage: 76 (11 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 2 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 62
- Food and beverage stores (18%)
- Construction (10%)
- Food (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (6%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Machinery (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Educational services (30%)
- Food and beverage stores (12%)
- Health care (12%)
- Social assistance (10%)
- Used merchandise, gift, novelty, and souvenir, and other miscellaneous stores (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Retail florists (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (18%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (6%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (5%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Printing workers (5%)
- Cashiers (12%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (11%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (6%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Top executives (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wadena township:
- German (45.3%)
- Norwegian (10.4%)
- United States or American (10.1%)
- English (7.8%)
- Irish (3.9%)
- Swedish (3.9%)
- Finnish (2.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (29%)
- Spain (21%)
- Korea (21%)
- Sweden (14%)
- Philippines (14%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 392 (79%)
- Carpooled: 43 (9%)
- Walked: 17 (3%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 40 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (20%)
- Wood (12%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.6% of residents of Wadena township speak English at home.
1.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (38% speak English very well, 31% speak English well, 31% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
0.5% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,018- In family households: 943 (253 male householders, 37 female householders)
277 spouses, 345 children (330 natural, 7 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 4 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 5 other relatives, 13 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 75 (42 male householders (29 living alone)), 17 female householders (17 living alone)), 16 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 123 2-persons, 69 3-persons, 43 4-persons, 42 5-persons, 4 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 46 1-person, 9 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 2 4-persons,
249 married couples with children.
34 single-parent households (12 men, 22 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 15
Here: | 9.9% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |