Watab township, Benton County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Watab township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
66% of Watab township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 40% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 82% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 2498
- Northeast: 29
- Midwest: 249
- South: 40
- West: 70
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $162,500
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 6.8%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.0% of all households
- Gay men: 0.2% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 805
- One, attached: 5
- 3 or 4: 1
- Mobile homes: 247
Median worth of mobile homes: $27,900
Housing units in Watab township with a mortgage: 489 (39 second mortgage, 86 home equity loan, 11 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 170
- Construction (17%)
- Repair and maintenance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (4%)
- Truck transportation (4%)
- Paper (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (3%)
- Health care (13%)
- Educational services (13%)
- Electronic shopping and mail-order houses (9%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Printing and related support activities (5%)
- Miscellaneous manufacturing (4%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (5%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (4%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (8%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (6%)
- Customer service representatives (6%)
- Cashiers (5%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Watab township:
- German (54.0%)
- Norwegian (11.1%)
- Polish (11.1%)
- Swedish (4.8%)
- French (except Basque) (2.8%)
- Irish (2.5%)
- United States or American (2.4%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Canada (35%)
- Germany (29%)
- France (16%)
- Japan (13%)
- Korea (6%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 1,373 (87%)
- Carpooled: 144 (9%)
- Walked: 21 (1%)
- Other means: 2 (0%)
- Worked at home: 31 (2%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (73%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (9%)
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (7%)
- Electricity (7%)
- Wood (3%)
96.1% of residents of Watab township speak English at home.
1.8% of residents speak Spanish at home (85% speak English very well, 4% speak English well, 10% 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).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 2,919- In family households: 2,619 (667 male householders, 147 female householders)
716 spouses, 975 children (915 natural, 17 adopted, 43 stepchildren), 17 grandchildren, 15 brothers or sisters, 19 parents, 14 other relatives, 49 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 300 (135 male householders (98 living alone)), 94 female householders (74 living alone)), 71 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 322 2-persons, 159 3-persons, 210 4-persons, 89 5-persons, 20 6-persons, 14 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 172 1-person, 43 2-persons, 8 3-persons, 6 4-persons,
686 married couples with children.
138 single-parent households (40 men, 98 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 33
| Here: | 8.2% |
| Minnesota: | 11.7% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 8
| Here: | 3.4% |
| Minnesota: | 6.8% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 3
| Here: | 7.9% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |