Browns Valley township, Big Stone County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
Browns Valley township: | 1.1% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
74% of Browns Valley township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 47% 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: 368
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 76
- South: 2
- West: 3
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $17,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 1.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 186
- One, attached: 6
- 3 or 4: 2
- 10 to 19: 10
- Mobile homes: 10
Median worth of mobile homes: $35,000
Housing units in Browns Valley township with a mortgage: 43 (13 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 78
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (38%)
- Gasoline stations (8%)
- Repair and maintenance (7%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Educational services (6%)
- Construction (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (17%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Administrative and support and waste management services (10%)
- Finance and insurance (9%)
- Farm supplies merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Farmers and farm managers (33%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (15%)
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (13%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (10%)
- Farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (3%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Browns Valley township:
- German (62.0%)
- Norwegian (11.2%)
- Irish (6.1%)
- Swedish (5.0%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
- English (2.5%)
- Czech (1.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (60%)
- Czechoslovakia (includes Czech Republic and Slovakia) (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 137 (71%)
- Carpooled: 19 (10%)
- Walked: 12 (6%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 24 (12%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (63%)
- Electricity (22%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Utility gas (1%)
98.6% of residents of Browns Valley township speak English at home.
0.5% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
0.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (50% speak English very well, 50% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 458- In family households: 388 (106 male householders, 22 female householders)
101 spouses, 153 children (153 natural, 0 adopted, 0 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 4 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 70 (26 male householders (22 living alone)), 40 female householders (40 living alone)), 4 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 60 2-persons, 25 3-persons, 24 4-persons, 16 5-persons, 1 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 62 1-person, 4 2-persons,
103 married couples with children.
20 single-parent households (5 men, 15 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% |