Ortonville township, Big Stone County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (79% naturalized citizens)
| Ortonville township: | 0.6% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
73% of Ortonville township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 45% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 49% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 1625
- Northeast: 9
- Midwest: 524
- South: 34
- West: 72
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $24,200
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.9%
No gay or lesbian households reported
71 people in nursing homes
12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 945
- One, attached: 25
- Two: 38
- 3 or 4: 16
- 5 to 9: 19
- 10 to 19: 57
- 20 to 49: 40
- 50 or more: 4
- Mobile homes: 42
Median worth of mobile homes: $14,400
Housing units in Ortonville township with a mortgage: 322 (46 second mortgage, 48 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 370
- Construction (12%)
- Public administration (7%)
- Health care (6%)
- Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Health care (25%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Social assistance (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (8%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Food (4%)
- Finance and insurance (3%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (6%)
- Farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (8%)
- Health technologists and technicians (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ortonville township:
- German (43.0%)
- Norwegian (23.6%)
- Swedish (8.1%)
- Irish (7.4%)
- United States or American (3.6%)
- English (2.9%)
- European (2.6%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Northern Europe (29%)
- France (29%)
- China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan (21%)
- Chile (21%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 709 (77%)
- Carpooled: 94 (10%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 11 (1%)
- Bicycle: 3 (0%)
- Walked: 67 (7%)
- Other means: 4 (0%)
- Worked at home: 35 (4%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (17%)
- Electricity (17%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
71 people in nursing homes
12 people in homes for the mentally retarded
97.7% of residents of Ortonville township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 60% speak English not well).
1.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (44% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 28% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,198- In family households: 1,852 (538 male householders, 113 female householders)
538 spouses, 629 children (604 natural, 17 adopted, 8 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 4 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 0 other relatives, 25 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 346 (98 male householders (94 living alone)), 237 female householders (228 living alone)), 11 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 84 (73 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 369 2-persons, 99 3-persons, 115 4-persons, 48 5-persons, 11 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 322 1-person, 13 2-persons,
400 married couples with children.
129 single-parent households (30 men, 99 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 16
| Here: | 6.4% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 4.7% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 8
| Here: | 21.1% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |