Compton township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (MN) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 0 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Compton township: | 0.3% |
| Whole state: | 5.3% |
63% of Compton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 42% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 76% lived in Minnesota.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 651
- Northeast: 5
- Midwest: 122
- South: 13
- West: 22
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $150,000
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 1.6%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.4% of all households
- Gay men: 0.4% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 245
- One, attached: 4
- 3 or 4: 2
- 5 to 9: 5
- Mobile homes: 22
Median worth of mobile homes: $46,400
Housing units in Compton township with a mortgage: 45 (2 second mortgage, 13 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 35
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (20%)
- Construction (8%)
- Furniture and related product manufacturing (6%)
- Food and beverage stores (6%)
- Truck transportation (6%)
- Educational services (5%)
- Groceries and related products merchant wholesalers (5%)
- Educational services (18%)
- Health care (18%)
- Finance and insurance (12%)
- Accommodation and food services (7%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (7%)
- Social assistance (5%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (14%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (8%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (6%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (4%)
- Woodworkers (4%)
- Sales representatives, services, wholesale and manufacturing (4%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (7%)
- Other management occupations except farmers and farm managers (5%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (5%)
- Health technologists and technicians (5%)
- Child care workers (5%)
- Financial clerks except bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks (5%)
- Farmers and farm managers (5%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Compton township:
- German (53.2%)
- Norwegian (16.4%)
- Swedish (7.5%)
- United States or American (5.3%)
- Finnish (3.3%)
- English (3.0%)
- Irish (3.0%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Hungary (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 256 (71%)
- Carpooled: 64 (18%)
- Walked: 17 (5%)
- Other means: 2 (1%)
- Worked at home: 20 (6%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (33%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (24%)
- Electricity (19%)
- Wood (19%)
- Utility gas (5%)
83.4% of residents of Compton township speak English at home.
1.0% of residents speak Spanish at home (29% speak English very well, 43% speak English well, 29% don't speak English at all).
14.5% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (48% speak English very well, 29% speak English well, 24% speak English not well).
1.1% of residents speak other language at home (100% speak English very well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 815- In family households: 753 (190 male householders, 19 female householders)
176 spouses, 331 children (322 natural, 7 adopted, 2 stepchildren), 2 grandchildren, 6 brothers or sisters, 6 parents, 4 other relatives, 19 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 62 (43 male householders (35 living alone)), 9 female householders (9 living alone)), 10 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 69 2-persons, 49 3-persons, 39 4-persons, 18 5-persons, 15 6-persons, 19 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 44 1-person, 8 2-persons,
249 married couples with children.
23 single-parent households (13 men, 10 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 32
| Here: | 26.2% |
| 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: 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Minnesota: | 24.6% |