Osage township, Becker County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
Osage township: | 0.3% |
Whole state: | 5.3% |
67% of Osage township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 33% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 71% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 735
- Northeast: 12
- Midwest: 82
- South: 21
- West: 37
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $9,999
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.3%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.3% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 390
- One, attached: 8
- 3 or 4: 6
- 5 to 9: 2
- 20 to 49: 2
- Mobile homes: 44
Median worth of mobile homes: $61,700
Housing units in Osage township with a mortgage: 73 (11 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 69
- Construction (26%)
- Repair and maintenance (9%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Truck transportation (7%)
- Food (4%)
- Building material and garden equipment and supplies dealers (4%)
- Health care (4%)
- Educational services (19%)
- Health care (18%)
- Social assistance (10%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (9%)
- Finance and insurance (5%)
- Utilities (4%)
- Metal and metal products (3%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (10%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (10%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (9%)
- Construction trades workers except carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, and construction laborers (8%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (10%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (8%)
- Counselors, social workers, and other community and social service specialists (6%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (6%)
- Drafters, engineering, and mapping technicians (5%)
- Registered nurses (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Osage township:
- German (35.3%)
- Norwegian (13.1%)
- Finnish (9.4%)
- English (7.7%)
- Irish (4.5%)
- Dutch (4.3%)
- United States or American (4.2%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 277 (73%)
- Carpooled: 61 (16%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 3 (1%)
- Walked: 8 (2%)
- Other means: 4 (1%)
- Worked at home: 25 (7%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (27%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (25%)
- Wood (24%)
- Electricity (21%)
- Other fuel (2%)
- Utility gas (2%)
95.7% of residents of Osage township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English very well).
1.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (73% speak English very well, 27% speak English well).
1.5% of residents speak other language at home (83% speak English very well, 17% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 889- In family households: 811 (212 male householders, 32 female householders)
233 spouses, 314 children (299 natural, 6 adopted, 9 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 16 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 78 (35 male householders (29 living alone)), 35 female householders (35 living alone)), 8 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 110 2-persons, 46 3-persons, 26 4-persons, 46 5-persons, 8 6-persons, 8 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 64 1-person, 3 2-persons, 3 3-persons,
186 married couples with children.
14 single-parent households (11 men, 3 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 6
Here: | 5.0% |
Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 4
Here: | 7.0% |
Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
Here: | 17.6% |
Minnesota: | 24.6% |