Knife Lake township, Kanabec County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Knife Lake township: | 1.5% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
59% of Knife Lake township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 53% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 95% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 906
- Northeast: 10
- Midwest: 80
- South: 13
- West: 24
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $45,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 2.2%
No gay or lesbian households reported
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 456
- Two: 4
- 5 to 9: 3
- Mobile homes: 90
- Boats, RVs, vans, etc.: 4
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,000
Housing units in Knife Lake township with a mortgage: 112 (8 second mortgage, 8 home equity loan, 3 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 69
- Construction (23%)
- Educational services (7%)
- Arts, entertainment, and recreation (6%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (4%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Plastics and rubber products (4%)
- Health care (23%)
- Accommodation and food services (9%)
- Educational services (9%)
- Plastics and rubber products (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (6%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Supervisors and other personal care and service workers except personal appearance, transportation, and child care workers (5%)
- Carpenters (4%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (12%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (9%)
- Waiters and waitresses (6%)
- Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (4%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Knife Lake township:
- German (28.6%)
- Swedish (16.7%)
- Norwegian (16.6%)
- Irish (5.5%)
- English (4.3%)
- French (except Basque) (4.2%)
- United States or American (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- United Kingdom (31%)
- Korea (25%)
- Vietnam (19%)
- Philippines (13%)
- Australia (13%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 384 (83%)
- Carpooled: 30 (6%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 6 (1%)
- Walked: 5 (1%)
- Other means: 3 (1%)
- Worked at home: 37 (8%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (68%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (10%)
- Wood (10%)
- Utility gas (7%)
- Electricity (5%)
95.3% of residents of Knife Lake township speak English at home.
1.7% of residents speak Spanish at home (71% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (94% speak English very well, 6% speak English not well).
1.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (40% speak English very well, 30% speak English well, 30% speak English not well).
0.2% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 1,049- In family households: 935 (273 male householders, 32 female householders)
269 spouses, 337 children (293 natural, 15 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 3 grandchildren, 2 brothers or sisters, 4 parents, 4 other relatives, 11 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 114 (49 male householders (43 living alone)), 50 female householders (47 living alone)), 15 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 147 2-persons, 62 3-persons, 59 4-persons, 20 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 2 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 90 1-person, 7 2-persons, 2 3-persons,
204 married couples with children.
49 single-parent households (21 men, 28 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 9
| Here: | 6.4% |
| 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: 5
| Here: | 38.5% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |