Wood Lake township, Benson County, North Dakota (ND) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
| Wood Lake township: | 0.7% |
| Whole state: | 1.9% |
48% of Wood Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 79% lived in North Dakota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 404
- Northeast: 3
- Midwest: 27
- South: 0
- West: 16
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 16.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.8% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 150
- One, attached: 3
- Mobile homes: 59
Median worth of mobile homes: $22,900
Housing units in Wood Lake township with a mortgage: 10 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 10
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (25%)
- Construction (19%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Public administration (8%)
- Textile mills and textile products (5%)
- Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers (3%)
- Social assistance (18%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (18%)
- Health care (15%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (8%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (22%)
- Farmers and farm managers (15%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (7%)
- Carpenters (7%)
- Social scientists and related workers (5%)
- Postsecondary teachers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Cashiers (18%)
- Child care workers (13%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Wood Lake township:
- Norwegian (9.5%)
- German (5.1%)
- United States or American (3.7%)
- French (except Basque) (0.5%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 64 (54%)
- Carpooled: 36 (30%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (2%)
- Walked: 9 (8%)
- Other means: 2 (2%)
- Worked at home: 6 (5%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Other fuel (36%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (28%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (9%)
- No fuel used (7%)
- Wood (3%)
81.6% of residents of Wood Lake township speak English at home.
2.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (70% speak English very well, 30% speak English well).
1.3% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
14.6% of residents speak other language at home (81% speak English very well, 19% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 453- In family households: 415 (41 male householders, 53 female householders)
48 spouses, 205 children (192 natural, 7 adopted, 6 stepchildren), 19 grandchildren, 3 brothers or sisters, 2 parents, 21 other relatives, 23 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 38 (15 male householders (13 living alone)), 8 female householders (3 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 16 2-persons, 20 3-persons, 17 4-persons, 17 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 13 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 16 1-person, 5 2-persons, 2 6-persons,
70 married couples with children.
75 single-parent households (15 men, 60 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| 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: 3
| Here: | 23.1% |
| North Dakota: | 10.5% |