Farming township, Stearns County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (0% naturalized citizens)
Farming township: | 0.6% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
79% of Farming township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 75% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 64% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 845
- Northeast: 2
- Midwest: 15
- South: 3
- West: 13
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.1%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.0% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 260
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 2
- Mobile homes: 21
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,500
Housing units in Farming township with a mortgage: 61 (12 second mortgage, 6 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 20
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (18%)
- Construction (12%)
- Metal and metal products (7%)
- Food (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (4%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (4%)
- Health care (24%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (7%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (5%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (13%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Agricultural workers including supervisors (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (7%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (6%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Farming township:
- German (83.8%)
- United States or American (4.6%)
- Norwegian (3.5%)
- Polish (2.3%)
- Swedish (1.3%)
- Finnish (1.1%)
- Irish (0.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Venezuela (60%)
- Germany (40%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 381 (76%)
- Carpooled: 33 (7%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 2 (0%)
- Motorcycle: 2 (0%)
- Walked: 23 (5%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 60 (12%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (55%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (28%)
- Wood (14%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Utility gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
91.3% of residents of Farming township speak English at home.
1.2% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
7.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (69% speak English very well, 27% speak English well, 3% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 883- In family households: 803 (214 male householders, 15 female householders)
196 spouses, 367 children (352 natural, 5 adopted, 10 stepchildren), 0 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 9 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 80 (49 male householders (39 living alone)), 11 female householders (6 living alone)), 20 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 61 2-persons, 50 3-persons, 62 4-persons, 35 5-persons, 12 6-persons, 9 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 45 1-person, 12 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
258 married couples with children.
21 single-parent households (8 men, 13 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
Here: | 25.4% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 5
Here: | 7.0% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 4
Here: | 16.7% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |