St. Joseph township, Stearns County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 4 (42% naturalized citizens)
| St. Joseph township: | 3.9% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
69% of St. Joseph township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 61% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 75% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2177
- Northeast: 25
- Midwest: 137
- South: 23
- West: 41
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $75,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 8.0%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.2% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 567
- One, attached: 6
- Two: 7
- 3 or 4: 18
- 5 to 9: 38
- Mobile homes: 276
Median worth of mobile homes: $9,999
Housing units in St. Joseph township with a mortgage: 238 (23 second mortgage, 46 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 98
- Construction (16%)
- Metal and metal products (5%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (11%)
- Accommodation and food services (10%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (7%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (7%)
- Electrical equipment, appliances, and components (4%)
- Food and beverage stores (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (8%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (7%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Assemblers and fabricators (4%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Cashiers (8%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (4%)
- Other teachers and instructors, education, training, and library occupations (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in St. Joseph township:
- German (61.4%)
- Norwegian (7.2%)
- Polish (4.1%)
- Irish (3.6%)
- United States or American (3.5%)
- Swedish (2.6%)
- French (except Basque) (1.9%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Vietnam (56%)
- Mexico (24%)
- Korea (13%)
- El Salvador (4%)
- Philippines (3%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,128 (84%)
- Carpooled: 142 (11%)
- Bicycle: 5 (0%)
- Walked: 25 (2%)
- Other means: 7 (1%)
- Worked at home: 39 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (52%)
- Electricity (13%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (13%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (12%)
- Wood (10%)
92.4% of residents of St. Joseph township speak English at home.
2.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (43% speak English very well, 22% speak English well, 34% speak English not well).
1.8% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (84% speak English very well, 16% speak English well).
2.9% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (10% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 46% speak English not well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,512- In family households: 2,263 (602 male householders, 67 female householders)
547 spouses, 903 children (831 natural, 17 adopted, 55 stepchildren), 6 grandchildren, 37 brothers or sisters, 5 parents, 21 other relatives, 75 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 249 (120 male householders (89 living alone)), 72 female householders (52 living alone)), 57 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 256 2-persons, 141 3-persons, 128 4-persons, 105 5-persons, 34 6-persons, 5 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 141 1-person, 40 2-persons, 11 3-persons,
545 married couples with children.
162 single-parent households (58 men, 104 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 63
| Here: | 18.5% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 27
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 40
| Here: | 34.8% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |