Boy Lake township, Cass County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 42 (36% naturalized citizens)
Boy Lake township: | 42.4% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
59% of Boy Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 37% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 81% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 4273
- Northeast: 58
- Midwest: 462
- South: 379
- West: 172
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $61,400
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 12.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 1.7% of all households
- Gay men: 1.7% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 1,698
- One, attached: 22
- Two: 23
- 3 or 4: 102
- 5 to 9: 42
- 10 to 19: 38
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 301
Median worth of mobile homes: $17,500
Housing units in Boy Lake township with a mortgage: 628 (54 second mortgage, 37 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 400
- Construction (17%)
- Metal and metal products (6%)
- Transportation equipment (6%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Apparel (6%)
- Leather and allied products (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Finance and insurance (4%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (6%)
- Supervisors of construction and extraction workers (6%)
- Carpenters (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (9%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (7%)
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Boy Lake township:
- German (27.3%)
- United States or American (19.1%)
- Irish (13.5%)
- English (8.8%)
- French (except Basque) (6.1%)
- Italian (2.7%)
- Polish (2.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (32%)
- Canada (20%)
- United Kingdom (18%)
- India (16%)
- France (11%)
- Korea (4%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,874 (77%)
- Carpooled: 424 (17%)
- Taxi: 13 (1%)
- Walked: 34 (1%)
- Other means: 19 (1%)
- Worked at home: 68 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (42%)
- Electricity (39%)
- Wood (9%)
- Utility gas (8%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (2%)
97.9% of residents of Boy Lake township speak English at home.
1.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (30% speak English very well, 26% speak English well, 38% speak English not well, 6% don't speak English at all).
0.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 5,318- In family households: 4,611 (1,238 male householders, 252 female householders)
1,292 spouses, 1,595 children (1,458 natural, 14 adopted, 123 stepchildren), 96 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 30 parents, 53 other relatives, 49 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 707 (239 male householders (185 living alone)), 351 female householders (307 living alone)), 117 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 103 (56 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 689 2-persons, 321 3-persons, 260 4-persons, 130 5-persons, 51 6-persons, 39 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 492 1-person, 91 2-persons, 6 4-persons, 1 5-persons,
11 married couples with children.
10 single-parent households (1 men, 9 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 83
Here: | 11.4% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
Here: | 3.0% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 22
Here: | 20.4% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |