Wheeler township, Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 3 (55% naturalized citizens)
| Wheeler township: | 2.8% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
65% of Wheeler township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 60% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 55% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 957
- Northeast: 23
- Midwest: 57
- South: 64
- West: 22
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $19,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.4%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 406
- Two: 6
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 38
Median worth of mobile homes: $15,000
Housing units in Wheeler township with a mortgage: 174 (2 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 117
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (7%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Public administration (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (15%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Health care (13%)
- Finance and insurance (8%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- U. S. Postal service (4%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (9%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (8%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wheeler township:
- United States or American (33.5%)
- German (18.6%)
- English (12.4%)
- Irish (9.6%)
- Scottish (5.7%)
- Scotch-Irish (2.5%)
- European (1.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Germany (73%)
- Mexico (27%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 433 (77%)
- Carpooled: 85 (15%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (1%)
- Bicycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 35 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (10%)
- Electricity (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (5%)
- Other fuel (2%)
96.0% of residents of Wheeler township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
2.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,140- In family households: 995 (275 male householders, 60 female householders)
276 spouses, 347 children (326 natural, 4 adopted, 17 stepchildren), 14 grandchildren, 9 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 145 (47 male householders (33 living alone)), 60 female householders (57 living alone)), 38 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 155 2-persons, 83 3-persons, 48 4-persons, 28 5-persons, 21 6-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 90 1-person, 8 2-persons, 3 4-persons, 6 6-persons,
82 married couples with children.
6 single-parent households (3 men, 3 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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% |