La Grand township, Douglas County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (39% naturalized citizens)
| La Grand township: | 0.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of La Grand 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, 77% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 3614
- Northeast: 50
- Midwest: 317
- South: 497
- West: 54
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,601
- One, attached: 35
- Two: 104
- 3 or 4: 38
- 5 to 9: 23
- Mobile homes: 11
Median worth of mobile homes: $12,500
Housing units in La Grand township with a mortgage: 826 (88 second mortgage, 105 home equity loan, 6 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 317
- Construction (9%)
- Machinery (8%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Health care (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (12%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (9%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Finance and insurance (7%)
- Personal and laundry services (4%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (3%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (8%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (7%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in La Grand township:
- German (37.8%)
- United States or American (24.2%)
- Irish (11.4%)
- English (6.3%)
- Italian (2.1%)
- Scottish (2.1%)
- Polish (1.7%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Romania (26%)
- United Kingdom (21%)
- Poland (21%)
- Germany (13%)
- Japan (11%)
- Other South Eastern Asia (8%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,850 (83%)
- Carpooled: 239 (11%)
- Bicycle: 6 (0%)
- Walked: 59 (3%)
- Other means: 5 (0%)
- Worked at home: 57 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Electricity (39%)
- Utility gas (35%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (16%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Wood (2%)
98.5% of residents of La Grand township speak English at home.
0.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 28% speak English well, 33% speak English not well).
0.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (82% speak English very well, 9% speak English well, 9% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 4,601- In family households: 4,142 (1,091 male householders, 240 female householders)
1,098 spouses, 1,491 children (1,356 natural, 38 adopted, 97 stepchildren), 47 grandchildren, 11 brothers or sisters, 39 parents, 31 other relatives, 94 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 459 (165 male householders (130 living alone)), 220 female householders (201 living alone)), 74 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 594 2-persons, 287 3-persons, 276 4-persons, 109 5-persons, 54 6-persons, 11 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 331 1-person, 47 2-persons, 2 3-persons, 5 4-persons,
872 married couples with children.
118 single-parent households (44 men, 74 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 40
| Here: | 5.9% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 21
| Here: | 7.5% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 3.8% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |