Garden City township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (60% naturalized citizens)
Garden City township: | 0.7% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
80% of Garden City township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 74% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 646
- Northeast: 4
- Midwest: 57
- South: 5
- West: 16
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $95,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 248
- Mobile homes: 26
Median worth of mobile homes: $34,000
Housing units in Garden City township with a mortgage: 101 (8 second mortgage, 20 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 48
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (15%)
- Construction (12%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Food (5%)
- Health care (5%)
- Repair and maintenance (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (4%)
- Health care (18%)
- Educational services (14%)
- Printing and related support activities (6%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (4%)
- Transportation equipment (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- U. S. Postal service (3%)
- Farmers and farm managers (11%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (9%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (6%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (5%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (9%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (6%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Customer service representatives (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Garden City township:
- German (56.7%)
- Norwegian (8.4%)
- Irish (5.0%)
- United States or American (5.0%)
- English (4.7%)
- Danish (3.1%)
- Welsh (3.1%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (80%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 320 (78%)
- Carpooled: 51 (12%)
- Walked: 14 (3%)
- Worked at home: 24 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (83%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Utility gas (3%)
- Electricity (2%)
- Wood (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
96.3% of residents of Garden City township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (33% speak English very well, 50% speak English well, 17% speak English not well).
2.0% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (86% speak English very well, 14% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 739- In family households: 679 (197 male householders, 20 female householders)
200 spouses, 249 children (222 natural, 9 adopted, 18 stepchildren), 1 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 0 other relatives, 10 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 60 (26 male householders (17 living alone)), 21 female householders (21 living alone)), 13 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 94 2-persons, 47 3-persons, 51 4-persons, 21 5-persons, 2 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 38 1-person, 7 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
144 married couples with children.
17 single-parent households (12 men, 5 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 2
Here: | 2.5% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 2
Here: | 2.7% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 0
Here: | 0.0% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |